SUSE operating system audit records must contain information to establish what type of events occurred, the source of events, where events occurred, and the outcome of events.

From SLES 12 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-000130 CCI-000131 CCI-000132 CCI-000133 CCI-000134 CCI-000135 CCI-000154 CCI-000158 CCI-000366 CCI-001464 CCI-001487 CCI-001876 CCI-002884

SV-91985r1_rule SUSE operating system audit records must contain information to establish what type of events occurred, the source of events, where events occurred, and the outcome of events.

Vulnerability discussion

Without establishing what type of events occurred, the source of events, where events occurred, and the outcome of events, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack.Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy this requirement includes, for example, time stamps, source and destination addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail indications, filenames involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked.Associating event types with detected events in the SUSE operating system audit logs provides a means of investigating an attack, recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds, or identifying an improperly configured SUSE operating system.Satisfies: SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015, SRG-OS-000038-GPOS-00016, SRG-OS-000039-GPOS-00017, SRG-OS-000040-GPOS-00018, SRG-OS-000041-GPOS-00019, SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00021, SRG-OS-000051-GPOS-00024, SRG-OS-000054-GPOS-00025, SRG-OS-000122-GPOS-00063, SRG-OS-000254-GPOS-00095, SRG-OS-000255-GPOS-00096, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

Check content

Verify the SUSE operating system produces audit records. Check that the SUSE operating system produces audit records by running the following command to determine the current status of the auditd service: # systemctl status auditd.service If the service is enabled, the returned message must contain the following text: Active: active (running) If the service is not running, this is a finding.

Fix text

Enable the SUSE operating system auditd service by performing the following commands: # sudo systemctl enable auditd.service # sudo systemctl start auditd.service

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