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V-258168CAT II — Medium severitySV-258168r958428_rule

RHEL 9 must periodically flush audit records to disk to prevent the loss of audit records.

Rule version RHEL-09-653095 · STIG v2 · 2026-09-17

Discussion

If option "freq" is not set to a value that requires audit records being written to disk after a threshold number is reached, then audit records may be lost.

Check

Verify that audit system is configured to flush to disk after every 100 records with the following command:

$ sudo grep freq /etc/audit/auditd.conf 

freq = 100

If "freq" isn't set to a value between "1" and "100", the value is missing, or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure RHEL 9 to flush audit to disk by adding or updating the following rule in "/etc/audit/auditd.conf":

freq = 100

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

Identifiers

Group ID
V-258168
Group title
SRG-OS-000051-GPOS-00024
Rule ID
SV-258168r958428_rule
Check ID
C-61909r943022_chk
Fix ID
F-61833r943023_fix