STIGUI
V-234172CAT II — Medium severitySV-234172r961800_rule

The FortiGate device must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to modify administrator privileges occur.

Rule version FGFW-ND-000065 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-24

Discussion

Without generating audit records 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 network device (e.g., module or policy filter).

Check

Log in to the FortiGate GUI with Super-Admin privilege.

1. Open a CLI console, via SSH or available from the GUI. 2. Run the following command: # show full-configuration log eventfilter | grep -i 'event\|system'

The output should be: set event enable set system enable

If the event and system parameters are set to disable, this is a finding.

Fix

When Event Logging is enabled, the device will audit attempts to modify administrator privileges. To enable event logging, log in to the FortiGate GUI with Super-Admin privilege.

1. Open a CLI console, via SSH or available from the GUI. 2. Run the following command:

     # config log eventfilter
     #    set event enable
     #    set system enable
     #    end

Identifiers

Group ID
V-234172
Group title
SRG-APP-000495-NDM-000318
Rule ID
SV-234172r961800_rule
Check ID
C-37357r835170_chk
Fix ID
F-37322r611704_fix