The operating system must provide a real-time alert when organization-defined audit failure events occur.

From Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Workstation STIG

Associated with: CCI-000144

SV-65711r1_rule The operating system must provide a real-time alert when organization-defined audit failure events occur.

Vulnerability discussion

It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Audit processing failures include, software/hardware errors, failures in the audit capturing mechanisms, and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded. Organizations must define audit failure events requiring an application to send an alarm. When those defined events occur, the application will provide a real-time alert to the appropriate personnel.

Check content

To verify that the system log is writing audit failure or warnings run the following command: sudo grep logger /etc/security/audit_warn If this does not return: logger -p security.warning "audit warning: $@" this is a finding.

Fix text

Edit the /etc/security/audit_warn file to include the line: logger -p security.warning "audit warning: $@"

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