STIGUI
V-274072CAT II — Medium severitySV-274072r1120204_rule

Amazon Linux 2023 must notify the system administrator (SA) and information system security officer (ISSO) (at a minimum) when allocated audit record storage volume 75 percent utilization.

Rule version AZLX-23-002040 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-20

Discussion

If security personnel are not notified immediately when storage volume reaches 75 percent utilization, they are unable to plan for audit record storage capacity expansion.

Check

Verify Amazon Linux 2023 notifies the SA and ISSO (at a minimum) when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75 percent of the repository maximum audit record storage capacity with the following command:

$ sudo grep -w space_left_action /etc/audit/auditd.conf space_left_action = email

If the value of the "space_left_action" is not set to "email", or if the line is commented out, ask the SA to indicate how the system is providing real-time alerts to the SA and ISSO.

If there is no evidence that real-time alerts are configured on the system, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure Amazon Linux 2023 to initiate an action to notify the SA and ISSO (at a minimum) when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75 percent of the repository maximum audit record storage capacity by adding/modifying the following line in the /etc/audit/auditd.conf file.

space_left_action = email

Identifiers

Group ID
V-274072
Group title
SRG-OS-000343-GPOS-00134
Rule ID
SV-274072r1120204_rule
Check ID
C-78163r1120202_chk
Fix ID
F-78068r1120203_fix