The /etc/security/audit_user file must have mode 0640 or less permissive.

From SOLARIS 10 SPARC SECURITY TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE

Associated with IA controls: ECLP-1

Associated with: CCI-000225

SV-4245r2_rule The /etc/security/audit_user file must have mode 0640 or less permissive.

Vulnerability discussion

Audit_user is a sensitive file that, if compromised, would allow a malicious user to select auditing parameters to ignore his sessions. This would allow malicious operations the auditing subsystem would not log for that user.

Check content

Check /etc/security/audit_user permissions. # ls -lL /etc/security/audit_user If /etc/security/audit_user is more permissive than 0640, this is a finding.

Fix text

Change the mode of the audit_user file to 0640. # chmod 0640 /etc/security/audit_user

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