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V-280936CAT III — Low severitySV-280936r1184726_rule

RHEL 10 must use a separate file system for the system audit data path.

Rule version RHEL-10-000520 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-17

Discussion

Placing "/var/log/audit" in its own partition enables better separation between audit files and other system files and helps ensure that auditing cannot be halted due to the partition running out of space.

Check

Verify RHEL 10 uses a separate file system/partition for the system audit data path with the following command:

Note: /var/log/audit is used as the example as it is a common location.

$ mount | grep /var/log/audit /dev/mapper/rootvg-varlogaudit on /var/log/audit type xfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,attr2,inode64,logbufs=8,logbsize=32k,noquota) Note: Options displayed for mount may differ.

If no line is returned, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure RHEL 10 to use a separate file system for the system audit data path by migrating "/var/log/audit" onto a separate file system.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-280936
Group title
SRG-OS-000341-GPOS-00132
Rule ID
SV-280936r1184726_rule
Check ID
C-85497r1165161_chk
Fix ID
F-85402r1165162_fix