STIGQter: STIG Summary: SLES 12 Security Technical Implementation Guide Version: 2 Release: 3 Benchmark Date: 23 Apr 2021:

The SUSE operating system must generate audit records for all uses of the crontab command.

DISA Rule

SV-217252r603950_rule

Vulnerability Number

V-217252

Group Title

SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015

Rule Version

SLES-12-020710

Severity

CAT II

CCI(s)

• CCI-000169 - The information system provides audit record generation capability for the auditable events defined in AU-2 a. at organization-defined information system components.
• CCI-000130 - The information system generates audit records containing information that establishes what type of event occurred.
• CCI-000172 - The information system generates audit records for the events defined in AU-2 d. with the content defined in AU-3.
• CCI-002884 - The organization audits nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic sessions^ organization-defined audit events.

Weight

10

Fix Recommendation

Configure the SUSE operating system to generate an audit record for all uses of the "crontab" command.

Add or update the following rules in the "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules" file:

-a always,exit -F path=/usr/bin/crontab -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k privileged-crontab

The audit daemon must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

# sudo systemctl restart auditd.service

Check Contents

Verify an audit record is generated for all uses of the "crontab" command.

Check for the following command call is being audited by performing the following command to check the file system rules in "/etc/audit/audit.rules":

# sudo grep -i 'crontab' /etc/audit/audit.rules

-a always,exit -F path=/usr/bin/crontab -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k privileged-crontab

If the command does not return any output or the returned line is commented out, this is a finding.

Vulnerability Number

V-217252

Documentable

False

Rule Version

SLES-12-020710

Severity Override Guidance

Verify an audit record is generated for all uses of the "crontab" command.

Check for the following command call is being audited by performing the following command to check the file system rules in "/etc/audit/audit.rules":

# sudo grep -i 'crontab' /etc/audit/audit.rules

-a always,exit -F path=/usr/bin/crontab -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=4294967295 -k privileged-crontab

If the command does not return any output or the returned line is commented out, this is a finding.

Check Content Reference

M

Target Key

4033

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