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V-281149CAT II — Medium severitySV-281149r1166399_rule

RHEL 10 must generate audit records for successful and unsuccessful uses of the "poweroff" command.

Rule version RHEL-10-500630 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-17

Discussion

Misuse of the "poweroff" command may cause availability issues for the system.

Check

Verify RHEL 10 is configured to audit the execution of the "poweroff" command with the following command:

$ sudo auditctl -l | grep poweroff -a always,exit -S all -F path=/usr/sbin/poweroff -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=-1 -F key=privileged-poweroff

If the command does not return a line, or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure RHEL 10 to generate audit records upon successful and unsuccessful uses of the "poweroff" command by adding or updating the following rule in the "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules" file:

-a always,exit -F path=/usr/sbin/poweroff -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=unset -k privileged-poweroff

Restart the audit daemon with the following command for the changes to take effect:

$ sudo service auditd restart

Identifiers

Group ID
V-281149
Group title
SRG-OS-000477-GPOS-00222
Rule ID
SV-281149r1166399_rule
Check ID
C-85710r1166397_chk
Fix ID
F-85615r1166398_fix