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VMware Postgres must be configured to log to "stderr".

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-256608VCPG-70-000018SV-256608r887610_ruleCCI-001855medium
Description
Without the ability to centrally manage the content captured in the audit records, identification, troubleshooting, and correlation of suspicious behavior would be difficult and could lead to a delayed or incomplete analysis of an ongoing attack. The content captured in audit records must be managed from a central location (necessitating automation). Centralized management of audit records and logs provides for efficiency in maintenance and management of records, as well as the backup and archiving of those records. For VMware Postgres logs to be successfully sent to a remote log management system, log events must be sent to "stderr". Those events will be captured and logged to disk where they will be picked up by "rsyslog" for shipping.
STIGDate
VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance PostgreSQL Security Technical Implementation Guide2023-06-15

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-05.2Event Log Storage Capacity Alerting
1.00
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (11) 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.

AU-12Audit Record Generation
1.00
AU-3Content of Audit Records
1.00
AU-3(1)Additional Audit Information
1.00
AU-4Audit Log Storage Capacity
1.00
AU-4(1)Transfer to Alternate Storage
1.00
AU-5Response to Audit Logging Process Failures
1.00
AU-5(1)Storage Capacity Warning
1.00
AU-5(2)Real-time Alerts
1.00
AU-7Audit Record Reduction and Report Generation
1.00
AU-9(3)Cryptographic Protection
1.00

+1 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

CCI1 mapping
CCI-001855
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-256608r887610_chk)

At the command prompt, run the following command: # /opt/vmware/vpostgres/current/bin/psql -U postgres -A -t -c "SHOW log_destination;" Expected result: stderr If the output does not match the expected result, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-60226r887609_fix)

At the command prompt, run the following commands: # /opt/vmware/vpostgres/current/bin/psql -U postgres -c "ALTER SYSTEM SET log_destination TO 'stderr';" # /opt/vmware/vpostgres/current/bin/psql -U postgres -c "SELECT pg_reload_conf();"