SV-281098r1165649: RHEL 10 must audit local events. | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 STIG SCAP Benchmark

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Assessment Title

Rule Text

RHEL 10 must audit local events.

Description

Discussion Text

Without establishing what type of events occurred, along with the source, location, and outcome, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. If option "local_events" is not set to "yes", only events from the network will be aggregated.

How this relates to the STIG checklist: STIG vs SCAP benchmark.

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Not mappedCCI-000169

References

DPMS Target Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 DISA DPMS Target Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 5733

SCC Automation Reference

The reconstructed evaluation script behind this rule's OVAL check(s) — every module a compound check combines, with this rule's own concrete values and DISA's SCC tool's real per-module mechanism curated from static teardown of SCC releases.

#!/bin/bash
# Reconstructed from oval:mil.disa.stig.rhel10os:def:281098
# RHEL 10 must audit local events.
# Per-module read mechanism curated from static teardown of DISA's SCC tool
# (SCAP Compliance Checker) -- see the SCC Automation Reference above.

# /etc/audit/auditd.conf: local_events = yes
# textfilecontent54_object (textfilecontent54_test)
test_1() {
  (sed -En 's/(?i)^\s*local_events\s*=\s*(\w+)\s*(?:#.*)?$/\1/p' '/etc/audit/auditd.conf') | grep -Pq '(?i)^yes$'
}

if test_1; then
  echo "PASS"
else
  echo "FAIL"
fi

Assessment Script Powered by AISandbox-executed

A standalone Shell script to assess this control automatically. Review before running it in your environment.

Syntax-checked and actually executed in an isolated sandbox (not the real system this checks) — confirmed to run without errors.

#!/bin/sh
# oval:mil.disa.stig.rhel10os:def:281098

if grep -qE '^\s*local_events\s*=\s*yes\s*(?:#.*)?$' /etc/audit/auditd.conf; then
  echo "PASS"
  exit 0
else
  echo "FAIL"
  exit 1
fi

Remediation

Configure RHEL 10 to generate audit records for local events by adding or updating the following line in "/etc/audit/auditd.conf":

local_events = yes

Restart the audit daemon with the following command for the changes to take effect:

$ sudo service auditd restart