Enable Auditing of Incoming Network Connections

How it is checked

Audit method: Shell command

[ -r /etc/security/audit_event ] || exit 1; r=compliant; for e in AUE_ACCEPT AUE_CONNECT AUE_SOCKACCEPT AUE_SOCKCONNECT AUE_inetd_connect; do awk -F: -v e="$e" '$2==e && $4 ~ /(^|,)cis(,|$)/ {f=1} END {exit !f}' /etc/security/audit_event || r="$e not assigned to the cis class"; done; echo "$r"

Expected output

compliant

How it is fixed

Fix method: Guidance or infrastructure patch

To enforce this setting, run the following commands to modify the /etc/security/audit_event file and add the cis audit class to the following audit events: # cp /etc/security/audit_event /etc/security/audit_event.orig # awk 'BEGIN{FS=":"; OFS=":"} {if ($2 ~ /AUE_ACCEPT|AUE_CONNECT|AUE_SOCKACCEPT|AUE_SOCKCONNECT|AUE_inetd_connect/) $4=$4",cis";} {print} ' /etc/security/audit_event > /etc/security/audit_event.out # cp /etc/security/audit_event.out /etc/security/audit_event

Check this host

Run this on a machine you are allowed to audit. The scan is read-only.

tmaegis scan --target solaris