STIGUI
V-271595CAT II — Medium severitySV-271595r1155316_rule

OL 9 must be configured so that successful/unsuccessful uses of the umount2 system call generate an audit record.

Rule version OL09-00-000845 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-21

Discussion

The changing of file permissions could indicate that a user is attempting to gain access to information that would otherwise be disallowed. Auditing discretionary access control (DAC) modifications can facilitate the identification of patterns of abuse among both authorized and unauthorized users.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015, SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000462-GPOS-00206, SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00215

Check

Verify OL 9 generates an audit record for all uses of the umount2 system call with the following commands:

$ sudo auditctl -l | grep umount2

-a always,exit -F arch=b32 -S umount2 -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=-1 -F key=privileged-umount -a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S umount2 -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=-1 -F key=privileged-umount

If the command does not return an audit rule for "umount2" or any of the lines returned are commented out, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the audit system to generate an audit event for any successful/unsuccessful use of the umount2 system call by adding the following rules to a rules file in /etc/audit/rules.d/ directory: (Example /etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules)

-a always,exit -F arch=b32 -S umount2 -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=unset -k perm_mod -a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S umount2 -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=unset -k perm_mod

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

Restart auditd: $ sudo service auditd restart

Identifiers

Group ID
V-271595
Group title
SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015
Rule ID
SV-271595r1155316_rule
Check ID
C-75645r1155315_chk
Fix ID
F-75552r1092583_fix