STIGUI
V-261436CAT II — Medium severitySV-261436r996715_rule

SLEM 5 must generate audit records for all uses of the "newgrp" command.

Rule version SLEM-05-654065 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-20

Discussion

Reconstruction of harmful events or forensic analysis is not possible if audit records do not contain enough information.

At a minimum, the organization must audit the full-text recording of privileged commands. The organization must maintain audit trails in sufficient detail to reconstruct events to determine the cause and impact of compromise.

Check

Verify SLEM 5 generates an audit record for all uses of the "newgrp" command with the following command:

     > sudo auditctl -l | grep -w '/usr/bin/newgrp'
     -a always,exit -S all -F path=/usr/bin/newgrp -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=-1 -F key=privileged-newgrp

If the command does not return any output, this is a finding.

Note: The "key=" value is arbitrary and can be different from the example output above.

Fix

Configure SLEM 5 to generate an audit record for all uses of the "newgrp" command.

Add or modify the following line in the "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules" file:

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

To reload the rules file, restart the audit daemon:

     > sudo systemctl restart auditd.service

or issue the following command:

     > sudo augenrules --load

Identifiers

Group ID
V-261436
Group title
SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015
Rule ID
SV-261436r996715_rule
Check ID
C-65165r996713_chk
Fix ID
F-65073r996714_fix