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OL 9 must generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect /var/log/faillock.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-271571OL09-00-000720SV-271571r1092560_ruleCCI-002884medium
Description
Without generating audit records specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000470-GPOS-00214, SRG-OS-000473-GPOS-00218
STIGDate
Oracle Linux 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-02-17

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 3 frameworks
SCF0 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (1) 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.

MNT-05.1Auditing Remote Maintenance
0.50
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (20) 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(1)Automated System Account Management
1.00
AC-2(4)Automated Audit Actions
1.00
AC-6(9)Log Use of Privileged Functions
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-3Content of Audit Records
1.00
AU-3(1)Additional Audit Information
1.00
AU-4Audit Log Storage Capacity
1.00

+10 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

CCI1 mapping
CCI-002884
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-271571r1092560_chk)

Verify that OL 9 generates audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect /var/log/faillock with the following command: $ sudo auditctl -l | grep /var/log/faillock -w /var/log/faillock -p wa -k logins If the command does not return a line or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-75528r1092559_fix)

Configure OL 9 to generate audit records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events that affect /var/log/faillock. Add or update the following file system rule to "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules": -w /var/log/faillock -p wa -k logins The audit daemon must be restarted for the changes to take effect. Restart auditd: $ sudo service auditd restart