STIGQter: STIG Summary: VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS Security Technical Implementation Guide Version: 1 Release: 4 Benchmark Date: 30 Jan 2025:

The Photon operating system audit log must log space limit problems to syslog.

DISA Rule

SV-256491r958424_rule

Vulnerability Number

V-256491

Group Title

SRG-OS-000046-GPOS-00022

Rule Version

PHTN-30-000014

Severity

CAT II

CCI(s)

• CCI-000139 - Alert organization-defined personnel or roles within an organization-defined time period in the event of an audit logging process failure.
• CCI-001858 - Provide an alert in an organization-defined real-time-period to organization-defined personnel, roles, and/or locations when organization-defined audit failure events requiring real-time alerts occur.

Weight

10

Fix Recommendation

Navigate to and open:

/etc/audit/auditd.conf

Ensure the "space_left_action" line is uncommented and set to the following:

space_left_action = SYSLOG

At the command line, run the following commands:

# killproc auditd -TERM
# systemctl start auditd

Check Contents

At the command line, run the following command:

# grep "^space_left_action" /etc/audit/auditd.conf

Expected result:

space_left_action = SYSLOG

If the output does not match the expected result, this is a finding.

Vulnerability Number

V-256491

Documentable

False

Rule Version

PHTN-30-000014

Severity Override Guidance

At the command line, run the following command:

# grep "^space_left_action" /etc/audit/auditd.conf

Expected result:

space_left_action = SYSLOG

If the output does not match the expected result, this is a finding.

Check Content Reference

M

Target Key

5520