STIGUI
V-277059CAT II — Medium severitySV-277059r1148629_rule

The macOS system must configure sudo to log events.

Rule version APPL-26-000190 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

Sudo must be configured to log privilege escalation.

Without logging privilege escalation, it is difficult to identify attempted attacks because no audit trail is available for forensic investigation.

Check

Verify the macOS system is configured to log privilege escalation with the following command:

/usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/sudo -V | /usr/bin/grep -c "Log when a command is allowed by sudoers"

If the result is not "1", this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the macOS system to log privilege escalation with the following command:

/usr/bin/find /etc/sudoers* -type f -exec sed -i '' '/^Defaults[[:blank:]]*\!log_allowed/s/^/# /' '{}' \; /bin/echo "Defaults log_allowed" >> /etc/sudoers.d/mscp

Identifiers

Group ID
V-277059
Group title
SRG-OS-000064-GPOS-00033
Rule ID
SV-277059r1148629_rule
Check ID
C-81214r1148627_chk
Fix ID
F-81119r1148628_fix