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The Photon operating system must initiate session audits at system startup.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-258836PHTN-40-000080SV-258836r991555_ruleCCI-001464medium
Description
If auditing is enabled late in the startup process, the actions of some startup processes may not be audited. Some audit systems also maintain state information only available if auditing is enabled before a given process is created.
STIGDate
VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS 4.0 Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-06-02

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 2 frameworks
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (29) 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(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(3)Changes by Authorized Individuals
1.00
AU-14(1)System Start-up
1.00
AU-14(2)Capture and Record Content
1.00
AU-3Content of Audit Records
1.00

+19 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

CCI1 mapping
CCI-001464
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-258836r991555_chk)

At the command line, run the following command to verify auditing is enabled at startup: # grep 'audit' /proc/cmdline Example result: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.109-2.ph4-esx root=PARTUUID=6e6293c6-9ab6-49e9-aa97-9b212f2e037a init=/lib/systemd/systemd rcupdate.rcu_expedited=1 rw systemd.show_status=1 quiet noreplace-smp cpu_init_udelay=0 plymouth.enable=0 systemd.legacy_systemd_cgroup_controller=yes audit=1 If the "audit" parameter is not present with a value of "1", this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-62485r933568_fix)

Navigate to and open: /boot/grub2/grub.cfg Locate the boot command line arguments. An example follows: linux /boot/$photon_linux root=$rootpartition $photon_cmdline $systemd_cmdline Add "audit=1" to the end of the line so it reads as follows: linux /boot/$photon_linux root=$rootpartition $photon_cmdline $systemd_cmdline audit=1 Note: Do not copy/paste in this example argument line. This may change in future releases. Find the similar line and append "audit=1" to it. Reboot the system for the change to take effect.