STIGUI
V-261460CAT II — Medium severitySV-261460r996787_rule

SLEM 5 must generate audit records for all uses of the "umount" system call.

Rule version SLEM-05-654185 · 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 "umount" and "umount2" system calls with the following command:

     > sudo auditctl -l | grep 'umount'
     -a always,exit -F arch=b32 -S umount -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=-1 -F key=privileged-umount
     -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 both the "b32" and "b64" audit rules are not defined for the "umount" syscall, 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 "umount" and "umount2" system calls.

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

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

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-261460
Group title
SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015
Rule ID
SV-261460r996787_rule
Check ID
C-65189r996785_chk
Fix ID
F-65097r996786_fix