The Cisco IOS XE router must provide audit record generation capability for DoD-defined auditable events within the router.

From Cisco IOS XE Release 3 NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide

Part of SRG-APP-000089-NDM-000221

Associated with: CCI-000169

SV-88655r2_rule The Cisco IOS XE router must provide audit record generation capability for DoD-defined auditable events within the router.

Vulnerability discussion

Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. Audit records can be generated from various components within the network device (e.g., process, module). Certain specific device functionalities may be audited as well. The list of audited events is the set of events for which audits are to be generated. This set of events is typically a subset of the list of all events for which the system is capable of generating audit records.DoD has defined the list of events for which the device will provide an audit record generation capability as the following: (i) Successful and unsuccessful attempts to access, modify, or delete privileges, security objects, security levels, or categories of information (e.g., classification levels);(ii) Access actions, such as successful and unsuccessful logon attempts, privileged activities or other system level access, starting and ending time for user access to the system, concurrent logons from different workstations, successful and unsuccessful accesses to objects, all program initiations, and all direct access to the information system; and(iii) All account creation, modification, disabling, and termination actions.

Check content

Verify that the Cisco IOS XE router is generating audit records. The configuration should look similar to the example below: logging userinfo login on-failure log login on-success log archive log config logging enable logging size 1000 notify syslog contenttype plaintext hidekeys If audit records are not being generated, this is a finding.

Fix text

Enter the following commands to enable auditing: logging userinfo login on-failure log login on-success log archive log config logging enable logging size 1000 notify syslog contenttype plaintext hidekeys

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