Oracle Solaris
TMA-SOLARIS-4.3
Enable Auditing of File Metadata Modification Events
Description
The Solaris Audit service can be configured to record file metadata modification events for every process running on the system. This will allow the auditing service to determine when file ownership, permissions and related information is changed. This recommendation will provide an audit trail that contains information related to changes of file metadata. The Solaris Audit service is used to provide a more centralized and complete window into activities such as these. Audit: each listed event must carry the cis class in /etc/security/audit_event.
How it is checked
Audit method: Shell command
[ -r /etc/security/audit_event ] || exit 1; r=compliant; for e in AUE_CHMOD AUE_CHOWN AUE_FCHOWN AUE_FCHMOD AUE_LCHOWN AUE_ACLSET AUE_FACLSET; 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: # awk 'BEGIN{FS=":"; OFS=":"} {if ($2 ~ /AUE_CHMOD|AUE_CHOWN|AUE_FCHOWN|AUE_FCHMOD|AUE_LCHOWN|AUE_ACLSET|AUE_FACLSET/ ) $4=$4",cis";} {print} ' /etc/security/audit_event > /etc/security/audit_event.CIS # cp /etc/security/audit_event.CIS /etc/security/audit_event
Properties
- Operating systems
- Any
- Tags
- solarisaudit
- Reference
- CIS Oracle Solaris 11.4 Benchmark v1.1.0 - 4.3 Enable Auditing of File Metadata Modification Events
Check this host
Run this on a machine you are allowed to audit. The scan is read-only.
tmaegis scan --target solaris