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V-282430CAT II — Medium severitySV-282430r1200270_rule

TOSS 5 must periodically flush audit records to disk to prevent the loss of audit records.

Rule version TOSS-05-000403 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-20

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 the audit system is configured to flush to disk after every 100 records using 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 TOSS 5 to flush audit to disk by adding or updating the following rule in "/etc/audit/auditd.conf":

freq = 100

Restart the audit daemon for the changes to take effect.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-282430
Group title
SRG-OS-000051-GPOS-00024
Rule ID
SV-282430r1200270_rule
Check ID
C-86991r1200268_chk
Fix ID
F-86896r1200269_fix