Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide

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Severity

Version

V2 · R10

CurrentPublished Wed Sep 30 2026

RHEL 9 audispd-plugins package must be installed.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Assessment Title

Rule Text

RHEL 9 audispd-plugins package must be installed.

Description

Discussion Text

"audispd-plugins" provides plugins for the real-time interface to the audit subsystem, "audispd". These plugins can do things like relay events to remote machines or analyze events for suspicious behavior.

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Objective

V-258175

Rule

SV-258175r1045310_rule

Severity

medium

Rule Version

RHEL-09-653130

Documentable

false

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Rev 5

Assessment Procedure

Check Text

Verify that RHEL 9 has the audispd-plugins package installed with the following command:

$ dnf list --installed audispd-plugins

Example output:

audispd-plugins.x86_64          3.0.7-101.el9_0.2

If the "audispd-plugins" package is not installed, this is a finding.

Implementation Procedure

Fix Text

The audispd-plugins package can be installed with the following command:
 
$ sudo dnf install audispd-plugins

STIG check 373 of 445 in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 STIG checklist

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