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The Photon operating system messages file must have the correct ownership and file permissions.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-256516PHTN-30-000041SV-256516r958566_ruleCCI-001314medium
Description
Only authorized personnel should be aware of errors and the details of the errors. Error messages are an indicator of an organization's operational state and can provide sensitive information to an unprivileged attacker.
STIGDate
VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS Security Technical Implementation Guide2024-12-16

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.

TDA-19Error Handling
1.00
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (12) 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-3Access Enforcement
1.00
AC-6(10)Prohibit Non-privileged Users from Executing Privileged Functions
1.00
AC-6(9)Log Use of Privileged Functions
1.00
AU-10Non-repudiation
1.00
AU-12Audit Record Generation
1.00
AU-14(1)System Start-up
1.00
AU-9Protection of Audit Information
1.00
AU-9(1)Hardware Write-once Media
1.00
AU-9(3)Cryptographic Protection
1.00

+2 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

CCI1 mapping
CCI-001314
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-256516r958566_chk)

At the command line, run the following command: # stat -c "%n is owned by %U and group owned by %G with %a permissions" /var/log/messages If the "/var/log/messages" directory is not owned by root or not group owned by root, or the file permissions are more permission than "640", this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-60134r887221_fix)

At the command line, run the following commands: # chown root:root /var/log/messages # chmod 0640 /var/log/messages