AlmaLinux OS 9 must enable auditing of processes that start prior to the audit daemon.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-269474	SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015	ALMA-09-047980	SV-269474r1050357_rule	2025-02-20	1

Description
Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. 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. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015, SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00020, SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000462-GPOS-00206, SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00215, SRG-OS-000473-GPOS-00218, SRG-OS-000254-GPOS-00095

Description

Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. 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. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015, SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00020, SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000462-GPOS-00206, SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00215, SRG-OS-000473-GPOS-00218, SRG-OS-000254-GPOS-00095

ℹ️ Check
Verify that GRUB 2 is configured to enable auditing of processes that start prior to the audit daemon with the following commands: Check that the all GRUB2 entries have auditing enabled: $ grubby --info=ALL \| grep audit args="ro audit=1 selinux=1 enforcing=1 audit_backlog_limit=8192 page_poison=1 vsyscall=none slub_debug=P pti=on iommu=force boot=UUID=eda01e9b-b7e1-431b-9549-16d5dcddf665 resume=/dev/mapper/luks-89bf0df8-547f-4613-af07-215e5f62e9a9 rd.luks.uuid=luks-8a7154ec-8eeb-46c8-9d75-66fc4b80d665 rd.lvm.lv=rootvg/root rd.luks.uuid=luks-89bf0df8-547f-4613-af07-215e5f62e9a9 rd.lvm.lv=rootvg/swap fips=1 rd.shell=0 quiet splash" If "audit" is not set to "1" or is missing, this is a finding. Check that auditing is enabled by default to persist in kernel updates: $ grep audit /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="audit=1 selinux=1 enforcing=1 audit_backlog_limit=8192 page_poison=1 vsyscall=none slub_debug=P pti=on iommu=force boot=UUID=eda01e9b-b7e1-431b-9549-16d5dcddf665 resume=/dev/mapper/luks-89bf0df8-547f-4613-af07-215e5f62e9a9 rd.luks.uuid=luks-8a7154ec-8eeb-46c8-9d75-66fc4b80d665 rd.lvm.lv=rootvg/root rd.luks.uuid=luks-89bf0df8-547f-4613-af07-215e5f62e9a9 rd.lvm.lv=rootvg/swap fips=1 rd.shell=0 quiet splash" If "audit" is not set to "1", is missing, or is commented out, this is a finding.

ℹ️ Check

Verify that GRUB 2 is configured to enable auditing of processes that start prior to the audit daemon with the following commands: Check that the all GRUB2 entries have auditing enabled: $ grubby --info=ALL | grep audit args="ro audit=1 selinux=1 enforcing=1 audit_backlog_limit=8192 page_poison=1 vsyscall=none slub_debug=P pti=on iommu=force boot=UUID=eda01e9b-b7e1-431b-9549-16d5dcddf665 resume=/dev/mapper/luks-89bf0df8-547f-4613-af07-215e5f62e9a9 rd.luks.uuid=luks-8a7154ec-8eeb-46c8-9d75-66fc4b80d665 rd.lvm.lv=rootvg/root rd.luks.uuid=luks-89bf0df8-547f-4613-af07-215e5f62e9a9 rd.lvm.lv=rootvg/swap fips=1 rd.shell=0 quiet splash" If "audit" is not set to "1" or is missing, this is a finding. Check that auditing is enabled by default to persist in kernel updates: $ grep audit /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="audit=1 selinux=1 enforcing=1 audit_backlog_limit=8192 page_poison=1 vsyscall=none slub_debug=P pti=on iommu=force boot=UUID=eda01e9b-b7e1-431b-9549-16d5dcddf665 resume=/dev/mapper/luks-89bf0df8-547f-4613-af07-215e5f62e9a9 rd.luks.uuid=luks-8a7154ec-8eeb-46c8-9d75-66fc4b80d665 rd.lvm.lv=rootvg/root rd.luks.uuid=luks-89bf0df8-547f-4613-af07-215e5f62e9a9 rd.lvm.lv=rootvg/swap fips=1 rd.shell=0 quiet splash" If "audit" is not set to "1", is missing, or is commented out, this is a finding.

✔️ Fix
Enable auditing of processes that start prior to the audit daemon with the following command: $ grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="audit=1"