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The Photon operating system must configure AIDE to detect changes to baseline configurations.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-266062PHTN-40-000237SV-266062r1003658_ruleCCI-001744medium
Description
Unauthorized changes to the baseline configuration could make the system vulnerable to various attacks or allow unauthorized access to the operating system. Changes to operating system configurations can have unintended side effects, some of which may be relevant to security. Detecting such changes and providing an automated response can help avoid unintended, negative consequences that could ultimately affect the security state of the operating system. The operating system's information system security manager (ISSM)/information system security officer (ISSO) and system administrators (SAs) must be notified via email and/or monitoring system trap when there is an unauthorized modification of a configuration item.
STIGDate
VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS 4.0 Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-06-02

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.

CHG-02.4Automated Security Response
1.00
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (9) 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-5(2)Real-time Alerts
1.00
AU-8Time Stamps
1.00
CM-3(5)Automated Security Response
1.00
CM-5(1)Automated Access Enforcement and Audit Records
1.00
SI-11Error Handling
1.00
SI-6Security and Privacy Function Verification
1.00
CCI1 mapping
CCI-001744
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-266062r1003658_chk)

At the command line, run the following commands to verify AIDE is configured and used to monitor for file changes: # grep -v '^#' /etc/aide.conf | grep -v '^$' Example result: STIG = p+i+n+u+g+s+m+S LOGS = p+n+u+g /boot STIG /opt STIG /usr STIG /etc STIG /var/log LOGS If the AIDE configuration does not include the lines shown above, this is a finding. At the command line, run the following commands to verify an AIDE database is configured and used to monitor for file changes: # aide --check If the check command indicates there is no database available, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-69888r1003657_fix)

Update the /etc/aide.conf file with the template provided as a supplemental document. At the command line, run the following commands to generate an AIDE database to use for file monitoring: # aide --init # cp /var/lib/aide/aide.db.new.gz /var/lib/aide/aide.db.gz Note: It is recommended to run these fix steps after all other STIG configurations have been completed so that the AIDE database includes those updates.