The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must be configured so that auditing is configured to produce records containing information to establish what type of events occurred, where the events occurred, the source of the events, and the outcome of the events. These audit records must also identify individual identities of group account users.

From Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Security Technical Implementation Guide

SV-86703r3_rule The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system must be configured so that auditing is configured to produce records containing information to establish what type of events occurred, where the events occurred, the source of the events, and the outcome of the events. These audit records must also identify individual identities of group account users.

Vulnerability discussion

Without establishing what type of events occurred, 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 operating system audit logs provides a means of investigating an attack; recognizing resource utilization or capacity thresholds; or identifying an improperly configured operating system.Satisfies: SRG-OS-000038-GPOS-00016, SRG-OS-000039-GPOS-00017, SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00021, SRG-OS-000254-GPOS-00095, SRG-OS-000255-GPOS-00096

Check content

Verify the operating system produces audit records containing information to establish when (date and time) the events occurred. Check to see if auditing is active by issuing the following command: # systemctl is-active auditd.service active If the "auditd" status is not active, this is a finding.

Fix text

Configure the operating system to produce audit records containing information to establish when (date and time) the events occurred. Enable the auditd service with the following command: # systemctl start auditd.service

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