The auditd service must be enabled on AlmaLinux OS 9.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-269532ALMA-09-054910SV-269532r1050415_ruleCCI-000135medium
Description
Without establishing what type of events occurred, the source of events, where events occurred, and the outcome of events, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy this requirement includes, for example, time stamps, source and destination addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail indications, filenames involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked. Associating event types with detected events in audit logs provides a means of investigating an attack, recognizing resource usage or capacity thresholds, or identifying an improperly configured AlmaLinux OS 9 system. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00021, SRG-OS-000051-GPOS-00024, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000122-GPOS-00063, SRG-OS-000473-GPOS-00218, SRG-OS-000472-GPOS-00217, SRG-OS-000474-GPOS-00219, SRG-OS-000365-GPOS-00152, SRG-OS-000358-GPOS-00145, SRG-OS-000348-GPOS-00136, SRG-OS-000349-GPOS-00137, SRG-OS-000350-GPOS-00138, SRG-OS-000351-GPOS-00139, SRG-OS-000352-GPOS-00140, SRG-OS-000353-GPOS-00141, SRG-OS-000354-GPOS-00142, SRG-OS-000337-GPOS-00129, SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031, SRG-OS-000054-GPOS-00025
STIGDate
Cloud Linux AlmaLinux OS 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-02-27

Related Frameworks

4 paths across 3 frameworks
NIST 800-531 mapping
  • DISA · V1R6 · disa_xccdf · related
  • DISA · 2025-01-23 · disa_cci_list · equivalent
NIST 800-1712 mappings
3.3.1
1.00
  • DISA · V1R6 · disa_xccdf · related
  • DISA · 2025-01-23 · disa_cci_list · equivalent
  • NIST · Rev 2 (Feb 2020, errata Jan 2021) · nist_800_171_app_d · equivalent
3.3.2
1.00
  • DISA · V1R6 · disa_xccdf · related
  • DISA · 2025-01-23 · disa_cci_list · equivalent
  • NIST · Rev 2 (Feb 2020, errata Jan 2021) · nist_800_171_app_d · equivalent
CCI1 mapping
CCI-000135
1.00
  • DISA · V1R6 · disa_xccdf · related

Details

Check Text (C-269532r1050415_chk)

Verify that the auditd service is enabled with the following command: $ systemctl status auditd.service auditd.service - Security Auditing Service Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/auditd.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Fri 2024-01-05 14:04:30 UTC; 10min ago If the audit service is not "active" and "running", this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-73464r1048973_fix)

To enable the auditd service run the following command: $ systemctl enable --now auditd