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The Ubuntu operating system must initiate session audits at system start-up.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-238299UBTU-20-010198SV-238299r1069095_ruleCCI-001464medium
Description
If auditing is enabled late in the start-up process, the actions of some start-up processes may not be audited. Some audit systems also maintain state information only available if auditing is enabled before a given process is created.
STIGDate
Canonical Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Security Technical Implementation Guide2025-05-16

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 2 frameworks
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (29) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

AC-17(1)Monitoring and Control
1.00
AC-2(4)Automated Audit Actions
1.00
AC-3Access Enforcement
1.00
AC-6(9)Log Use of Privileged Functions
1.00
AU-10Non-repudiation
1.00
AU-12Audit Record Generation
1.00
AU-12(3)Changes by Authorized Individuals
1.00
AU-14(1)System Start-up
1.00
AU-14(2)Capture and Record Content
1.00
AU-3Content of Audit Records
1.00

+19 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

CCI1 mapping
CCI-001464
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-238299r1069095_chk)

Verify the Ubuntu operating system enables auditing at system startup. Verify the auditing is enabled in grub with the following command: $ sudo grep "^\s*linux" /boot/grub/grub.cfg linux /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-31-generic root=UUID=74d13bcd-6ebd-4493-b5d2-3ebc37d01702 ro audit=1 linux /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-31-generic root=UUID=74d13bcd-6ebd-4493-b5d2-3ebc37d01702 ro recovery nomodeset audit=1 If any linux lines do not contain "audit=1", this is a finding. Note: Output may vary by system.

Fix Text (F-41468r1069094_fix)

Configure the Ubuntu operating system to produce audit records at system startup. Edit the "/etc/default/grub" file and add "audit=1" to the "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX" option and to the "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT" option. GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="audit=1" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="audit=1" To update the grub config file, run: $ sudo update-grub