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The Photon operating system must alert the ISSO and SA in the event of an audit processing failure.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-258810PHTN-40-000021SV-258810r958424_ruleCCI-000139medium
Description
It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without this notification, the security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability, and system operation may be adversely affected. Audit processing failures include software/hardware errors, failures in the audit capturing mechanisms, and audit storage capacity being reached or exceeded. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000046-GPOS-00022, SRG-OS-000344-GPOS-00135
STIGDate
VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS 4.0 Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-06-02

Related Frameworks

2 mappings across 4 frameworks
SCF0 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (2) 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-05Response To Event Log Processing Failures
1.00
MON-05.1Real-Time Alerts of Event Logging Failure
0.50
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (26) 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-2(4)Automated Audit Actions
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-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
AU-4(1)Transfer to Alternate Storage
1.00
AU-5Response to Audit Logging Process Failures
1.00

+16 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

NIST 800-1710 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.

3.3.4
1.00
CCI2 mappings
CCI-000139
1.00
CCI-001858
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-258810r958424_chk)

At the command line, run the following command to verify auditd is configured to send an alert via syslog in the event of an audit processing failure: # grep -E "^disk_full_action|^disk_error_action|^admin_space_left_action" /etc/audit/auditd.conf Example result: admin_space_left_action = SYSLOG disk_full_action = SYSLOG disk_error_action = SYSLOG If "disk_full_action", "disk_error_action", and "admin_space_left_action" are not set to SYSLOG or are missing, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-62459r933490_fix)

Navigate to and open: /etc/audit/auditd.conf Ensure the following lines are present, not duplicated, and not commented: disk_full_action = SYSLOG disk_error_action = SYSLOG admin_space_left_action = SYSLOG At the command line, run the following command: # pkill -SIGHUP auditd