STIGUI
V-252974CAT II — Medium severitySV-252974r958422_rule

TOSS must generate audit records containing the full-text recording of privileged commands.

Rule version TOSS-04-030060 · STIG v2 · 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 that an audit event is generated for any successful/unsuccessful use of the "sudo" command by performing the following command to check the file system rules in "/etc/audit/audit.rules":

$ sudo grep -w sudo /etc/audit/audit.rules -a always,exit -F path=/usr/bin/sudo -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=unset -k priv_cmd

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

Fix

Configure the audit system to generate an audit event for any successful/unsuccessful use of the "sudo" command by adding or updating the following rule in the "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules" file:

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

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

Identifiers

Group ID
V-252974
Group title
SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00020
Rule ID
SV-252974r958422_rule
Check ID
C-56427r824244_chk
Fix ID
F-56377r824245_fix