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The vCenter PostgreSQL service must off-load audit data to a separate log management facility.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-259185VCPG-80-000122SV-259185r1210431_ruleCCI-001851medium
Description
Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Off-loading is a common process in information systems with limited audit storage capacity. The database management system (DBMS) may write audit records to database tables, to files in the file system, to other kinds of local repository, or directly to a centralized log management system. Whatever the method used, it must be compatible with off-loading the records to the centralized system.
STIGDate
VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance PostgreSQL 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.

MON-08.1Event Log Backup on Separate Physical Systems / Components
0.50
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (34) 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(1)Automated System Account Management
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(1)System-wide and Time-correlated Audit Trail
1.00
AU-12(3)Changes by Authorized Individuals
1.00
AU-14(1)System Start-up
1.00

+24 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

CCI1 mapping
CCI-001851
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-259185r1210431_chk)

By default, a vmware-services-vmware-vpostgres.conf rsyslog and vmware-services-vmware-postgres-archiver.conf configuration file include the service logs when syslog is configured on vCenter, but they must be verified. At the command prompt, run the following command: # cat /etc/vmware-syslog/vmware-services-vmware-vpostgres.conf Expected result: # vmware-vpostgres first logs stdout, before loading configuration input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/vpostgres/serverlog.stdout" Tag="vpostgres-first" Severity="info" Facility="local0" deleteStateOnFileDelete="on" reopenOnTruncate="on") # vmware-vpostgres first logs stderr, before loading configuration input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/vpostgres/serverlog.stderr" Tag="vpostgres-first" Severity="info" Facility="local0" deleteStateOnFileDelete="on" reopenOnTruncate="on") # vmware-vpostgres logs input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/vpostgres/postgresql-*.log" Tag="vpostgres" Severity="info" Facility="local0" deleteStateOnFileDelete="on" reopenOnTruncate="on") Note: If the entries for "deleteStateOnFileDelete" and "reopenOnTruncate" do not exist, this is not a finding. If the output does not match the expected result, this is a finding. At the command prompt, run the following command: # cat /etc/vmware-syslog/vmware-services-vmware-postgres-archiver.conf Expected result: # vmware-postgres-archiver stdout log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/vpostgres/pg_archiver.log.stdout" Tag="postgres-archiver" Severity="info" Facility="local0" deleteStateOnFileDelete="on" reopenOnTruncate="on") # vmware-postgres-archiver stderr log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/vpostgres/pg_archiver.log.stderr" Tag="postgres-archiver" Severity="info" Facility="local0" deleteStateOnFileDelete="on" reopenOnTruncate="on") Note: If the entries for "deleteStateOnFileDelete" and "reopenOnTruncate" do not exist, this is not a finding. If the output does not match the expected result, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-62834r1210430_fix)

Navigate to and open: /etc/vmware-syslog/vmware-services-vmware-vpostgres.conf Create the file if it does not exist. Set the contents of the file as follows: # vmware-vpostgres first logs stdout, before loading configuration input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/vpostgres/serverlog.stdout" Tag="vpostgres-first" Severity="info" Facility="local0" deleteStateOnFileDelete="on" reopenOnTruncate="on") # vmware-vpostgres first logs stderr, before loading configuration input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/vpostgres/serverlog.stderr" Tag="vpostgres-first" Severity="info" Facility="local0" deleteStateOnFileDelete="on" reopenOnTruncate="on") # vmware-vpostgres logs input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/vpostgres/postgresql-*.log" Tag="vpostgres" Severity="info" Facility="local0" deleteStateOnFileDelete="on" reopenOnTruncate="on") Navigate to and open: /etc/vmware-syslog/vmware-services-vmware-postgres-archiver.conf Create the file if it does not exist. Set the contents of the file as follows: # vmware-postgres-archiver stdout log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/vpostgres/pg_archiver.log.stdout" Tag="postgres-archiver" Severity="info" Facility="local0" deleteStateOnFileDelete="on" reopenOnTruncate="on") # vmware-postgres-archiver stderr log input(type="imfile" File="/var/log/vmware/vpostgres/pg_archiver.log.stderr" Tag="postgres-archiver" Severity="info" Facility="local0" deleteStateOnFileDelete="on" reopenOnTruncate="on")