SV-288831r1261903: OS must generate an audit record for all successful and unsuccessful uses of the useradd command. | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 STIG SCAP Benchmark

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Assessment Title

Rule Text

OS must generate an audit record for all successful and unsuccessful uses of the useradd command.

Description

Discussion Text

Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. Audit records can be generated from various components within the information system (e.g., module or policy filter). The useradd command modifies the system account files to reflect the changes that are specified on the command line. When a user logs on, the AUID is set to the UID of the account that is being authenticated. Daemons are not user sessions and have the loginuid set to "-1". The AUID representation is an unsigned 32-bit integer, which equals "4294967295". The audit system interprets "-1", "4294967295", and "unset" in the same way. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031, SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015, SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00020, SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000462-GPOS-00206, SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00215, SRG-OS-000466-GPOS-00210"

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 8 DISA DPMS Target Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 2921

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.rhel8os:def:288831
# OS must generate an audit record for all successful and unsuccessful uses of the useradd command.
# Per-module read mechanism curated from static teardown of DISA's SCC tool
# (SCAP Compliance Checker) -- see the SCC Automation Reference above.

# Audit  of /usr/sbin/useradd
# textfilecontent54_object (textfilecontent54_test)
test_1() {
  grep -Pq '^\s*-a\s+(always,exit|exit,always)(?:\s+-S\s+all)?\s+-F\s+path=/usr/sbin/useradd\s+(?:-F\s+perm=[rwa]*x[rwa]*\s+)?(?:-F\s+auid>=1000\s+-F\s+auid!=(4294967295|-1|unset))?(\s+(-k\s+|-F\s+key=)\S+)?\s*$' '/etc/audit/audit.rules' &>/dev/null
}

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.rhel8os:def:288831
if grep -q "^\\s*-a\\s+always,exit\\s+-F\\s+path=/usr/sbin/useradd\\s+-F\\s+perm=x\\s+-F\\s+auid>=1000\\s+-F\\s+auid != unset\\s*-k\\s+privileged-useradd" /etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules; then echo "PASS"; exit 0; fi; echo "FAIL"; exit 1

Remediation

Configure OS to generate an audit event for any successful and unsuccessful uses of the "useradd" command by adding or updating the following rule in the "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules" file:

-a always,exit -F path=/usr/sbin/useradd -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=unset -k privileged-useradd

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

$ service auditd restart