The AIX audit configuration files must be owned by root.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-215315	AIX7-00-002200	SV-215315r958444_rule	CCI-000171	medium
Description
Without the capability to restrict which roles and individuals can select which events are audited, unauthorized personnel may be able to prevent the auditing of critical events. Misconfigured audits may degrade the system's performance by overwhelming the audit log. Misconfigured audits may also make it more difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one.
STIG			Date
IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide			2024-08-16

Related Frameworks

4 paths across 3 frameworks

NIST 800-531 mapping

AU-12

1.00

DISA · 3 · disa_xccdf · related
DISA · 2025-01-23 · disa_cci_list · equivalent

NIST 800-1712 mappings

3.3.1

1.00

DISA · 3 · 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 · 3 · 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-000171

1.00

DISA · 3 · disa_xccdf · related

Details

Check Text (C-215315r958444_chk)

Check that all the audit configuration files under /etc/security/audit/* have correct ownership. # ls -l /etc/security/audit/* -rw-r----- 1 root audit 37 Oct 10 2016 /etc/security/audit/bincmds -rw-r----- 1 root audit 2838 Sep 05 16:33 /etc/security/audit/config -rw-r----- 1 root audit 26793 Oct 10 2016 /etc/security/audit/events -rw-r----- 1 root audit 340 Oct 10 2016 /etc/security/audit/objects -rw-r----- 1 root audit 54 Oct 10 2016 /etc/security/audit/streamcmds If any file's ownership is not "root", this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-16511r294397_fix)

Set the owner audit configuration files to "root". # chown root /etc/security/audit/*