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OL 9 must authenticate the remote logging server for offloading audit logs via rsyslog.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-271854OL09-00-005015SV-271854r1092274_ruleCCI-001851medium
Description
Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Offloading is a common process in information systems with limited audit storage capacity. OL 9 installation media provides "rsyslogd", a system utility providing support for message logging. Support for both internet and Unix domain sockets enables this utility to support both local and remote logging. Coupling this utility with "gnutls" (a secure communications library implementing the SSL, TLS, and DTLS protocols) creates a method to securely encrypt and offload auditing. "Rsyslog" supported authentication modes include: anon - anonymous authentication x509/fingerprint - certificate fingerprint authentication x509/certvalid - certificate validation only x509/name - certificate validation and subject name authentication Satisfies: SRG-OS-000342-GPOS-00133, SRG-OS-000479-GPOS-00224
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.

MON-08.1Event Log Backup on Separate Physical Systems / Components
0.50
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (34) 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-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(1)System-wide and Time-correlated Audit Trail
1.00
AU-12(3)Changes by Authorized Individuals
1.00
AU-14(1)System Start-up
1.00

+24 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

CCI1 mapping
CCI-001851
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-271854r1092274_chk)

Verify that OL 9 authenticates the remote logging server for off-loading audit logs with the following command: $ grep -i '$ActionSendStreamDriverAuthMode' /etc/rsyslog.conf /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf /etc/rsyslog.conf:$ActionSendStreamDriverAuthMode x509/name If the value of the "$ActionSendStreamDriverAuthMode" option is not set to "x509/name" or the line is commented out, ask the system administrator (SA) to indicate how the audit logs are offloaded to a different system or media. If there is no evidence that the transfer of the audit logs being offloaded to another system or media is encrypted, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-75811r1092273_fix)

Configure OL 9 to authenticate the remote logging server for off-loading audit logs by setting the following option in "/etc/rsyslog.conf" or "/etc/rsyslog.d/[customfile].conf": $ActionSendStreamDriverAuthMode x509/name