STIGUI
V-282579CAT II — Medium severitySV-282579r1201582_rule

TOSS 5 must have the Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE) package installed.

Rule version TOSS-05-000369 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-20

Discussion

Without verifying the security functions, security functions may not operate correctly, and the failure may go unnoticed. Security function is defined as the hardware, software, and/or firmware of the information system responsible for enforcing the system security policy and supporting the isolation of code and data on which the protection is based. Security functionality includes, but is not limited to, establishing system accounts, configuring access authorizations (i.e., permissions, privileges), setting events to be audited, and setting intrusion detection parameters.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000363-GPOS-00150, SRG-OS-000445-GPOS-00199

Check

Verify TOSS 5 has the AIDE package installed using the following command:

$ sudo dnf list --installed aide

Example output:

aide.x86_64 0.16.100.el9

If AIDE is not installed, ask the system administrator (SA) how file integrity checks are performed on the system.

If there is no application installed to perform integrity checks, this is a finding.

If AIDE is installed, check if it has been initialized using the following command:

$ sudo /usr/sbin/aide --check

If the output is "Couldn't open file /var/lib/aide/aide.db.gz for reading", this is a finding.

Fix

Install AIDE, initialize it, and perform a manual check.

Install AIDE:

$ sudo dnf install aide

Initialize AIDE:

$ sudo /usr/sbin/aide --init

Example output:

Start timestamp: 2023-06-05 10:09:04 -0600 (AIDE 0.16) AIDE initialized database at /var/lib/aide/aide.db.new.gz

Number of entries: 86833

--------------------------------------------------- The attributes of the (uncompressed) database(s): ---------------------------------------------------

/var/lib/aide/aide.db.new.gz MD5 : coZUtPHhoFoeD7+k54fUvQ== SHA1 : DVpOEMWJwo0uPgrKZAygIUgSxeM= SHA256 : EQiZH0XNEk001tcDmJa+5STFEjDb4MPE TGdBJ/uvZKc= SHA512 : 86KUqw++PZhoPK0SZvT3zuFq9yu9nnPP toei0nENVELJ1LPurjoMlRig6q69VR8l +44EwO9eYyy9nnbzQsfG1g==

End timestamp: 2023-06-05 10:09:57 -0600 (run time: 0m 53s)

The new database must be renamed to be read by AIDE:

$ sudo mv /var/lib/aide/aide.db.new.gz /var/lib/aide/aide.db.gz

Perform a manual check:

$ sudo /usr/sbin/aide --check

Example output:

2023-06-05 10:16:08 -0600 (AIDE 0.16) AIDE found NO differences between database and filesystem. Looks okay!!

Identifiers

Group ID
V-282579
Group title
SRG-OS-000363-GPOS-00150
Rule ID
SV-282579r1201582_rule
Check ID
C-87140r1200715_chk
Fix ID
F-87045r1200716_fix