MongoDB must provide a warning to appropriate support staff when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75 percent of maximum audit record storage capacity.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-265939	SRG-APP-000359-DB-000319	MD7X-00-007300	SV-265939r1028603_rule	2024-09-27	1

Description
Organizations are required to use a central log management system, so, under normal conditions, the audit space allocated to MongoDB on its own server will not be an issue. However, space will still be required on MongoDB server for audit records in transit, and, under abnormal conditions, this could fill up. Since a requirement exists to halt processing upon audit failure, a service outage would result. If support personnel are not notified immediately upon storage volume utilization reaching 75 percent, they are unable to plan for storage capacity expansion. The appropriate support staff include, at a minimum, the information system security officer (ISSO) and the database administrator (DBA)/system administrator (SA).

Description

Organizations are required to use a central log management system, so, under normal conditions, the audit space allocated to MongoDB on its own server will not be an issue. However, space will still be required on MongoDB server for audit records in transit, and, under abnormal conditions, this could fill up. Since a requirement exists to halt processing upon audit failure, a service outage would result. If support personnel are not notified immediately upon storage volume utilization reaching 75 percent, they are unable to plan for storage capacity expansion. The appropriate support staff include, at a minimum, the information system security officer (ISSO) and the database administrator (DBA)/system administrator (SA).

ℹ️ Check
Verify that auditing is enabled in the mongodb configuration file (default location: /etc/mongod.conf) and view the "auditlog.path" to identify the storage volume. Verify that OS or other organization approved third-party monitoring software is installed. Verify that the required alert in the monitoring software to send an alert where storage volume holding the auditLog file utilization reaches 75 percent. If appropriate support staff are not notified immediately upon storage volume utilization reaching 75 percent, this is a finding.

ℹ️ Check

Verify that auditing is enabled in the mongodb configuration file (default location: /etc/mongod.conf) and view the "auditlog.path" to identify the storage volume. Verify that OS or other organization approved third-party monitoring software is installed. Verify that the required alert in the monitoring software to send an alert where storage volume holding the auditLog file utilization reaches 75 percent. If appropriate support staff are not notified immediately upon storage volume utilization reaching 75 percent, this is a finding.

✔️ Fix
View the mongodb configuration file (default location: /etc/mongod.conf) and view the "auditlog.path" to identify the storage volume. Install OS or other organization approved third-party monitoring software. Configure the required alert in the monitoring software to send an alert where storage volume holding the auditLog file utilization reaches 75 percent.