Vulnerability Discussion

Unauthorized disclosure of audit records can reveal system and configuration data to attackers, thus compromising its confidentiality.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000057-GPOS-00027, SRG-OS-000058-GPOS-00028, SRG-OS-000059-GPOS-00029, SRG-OS-000206-GPOS-00084

Check

Verify RHEL 10 enforces "root" ownership of audit logs to prevent unauthorized access.

Determine where the audit logs are stored with the following command:

$ sudo grep "^log_file" /etc/audit/auditd.conf
log_file = /var/log/audit/audit.log

Using the location of the audit log file, determine if the audit log files are owned by "root" using the following command:

$ sudo ls -la /var/log/audit/audit.log
rw-------. 2 root root 237923 Jun 11 11:56 /var/log/audit/audit.log

If the audit logs are not owned by "root", this is a finding.

Fix

Configure RHEL 10 to enforce "root" ownership of audit logs to prevent unauthorized access with the following command:

$ sudo chown root [audit_log_file]

Replace "[audit_log_file]" with the correct audit log path. By default this location is "/var/log/audit/audit.log".