Successful/unsuccessful uses of the "kmod" command in TOSS must generate an audit record.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-253050	SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00216	TOSS-04-031240	SV-253050r991580_rule	2024-05-30	2

Description
"Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. Audit records can be generated from various components within the information system (e.g., module or policy filter). The "kmod" command is used to control Linux Kernel modules. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00216, SRG-OS-000477-GPOS-00222

Description

"Without generating audit records that are specific to the security and mission needs of the organization, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. Audit records can be generated from various components within the information system (e.g., module or policy filter). The "kmod" command is used to control Linux Kernel modules. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00216, SRG-OS-000477-GPOS-00222

ℹ️ Check
Verify that TOSS is configured to audit the execution of the module management program "kmod", by running the following command: $ sudo grep "/usr/bin/kmod" /etc/audit/audit.rules -a always,exit -F path=/usr/bin/kmod -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=unset -k modules If the command does not return a line, or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

✔️ Fix
Configure TOSS to audit the execution of the module management program "kmod" by adding or updating the following line to "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules": -a always,exit -F path=/usr/bin/kmod -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=unset -k modules The audit daemon must be restarted for the changes to take effect.