STIGQter: STIG Summary: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide Version: 2 Release: 9 Benchmark Date: 01 Jul 2026:

RHEL 9 audit service must be enabled.

DISA Rule

SV-258152r1015127_rule

Vulnerability Number

V-258152

Group Title

SRG-OS-000062-GPOS-00031

Rule Version

RHEL-09-653015

Severity

CAT II

CCI(s)

CCI-000130 - Ensure that audit records containing information that establishes what type of event occurred.
CCI-000131 - Ensure that audit records containing information that establishes when the event occurred.
CCI-000132 - Ensure that audit records containing information that establishes where the event occurred.
CCI-000133 - Ensure that audit records containing information that establishes the source of the event.
CCI-000134 - Ensure that audit records containing information that establishes the outcome of the event.
CCI-000135 - Generate audit records containing the organization-defined additional information that is to be included in the audit records.
CCI-000154 - Provide the capability to centrally review and analyze audit records from multiple components within the system.
CCI-000158 - Provide the capability to process, sort, and search audit records for events of interest based on organization-defined audit fields within audit records.
CCI-000169 - Provide audit record generation capability for the event types the system is capable of auditing as defined in AU-2 a. on organization-defined information system components.
CCI-000172 - Generate audit records for the event types defined in AU-2 c that include the audit record content defined in AU-3.
CCI-001464 - Initiates session audits automatically at system start-up.
CCI-001487 - Ensure that audit records containing information that establishes the identity of any individuals, subjects, or objects/entities associated with the event.
CCI-003938 - Automatically generate audit records of the enforcement actions.
CCI-001875 - Provide an audit reduction capability that supports on-demand audit review and analysis.
CCI-001876 - Provide an audit reduction capability that supports on-demand reporting requirements.
CCI-001877 - Provide an audit reduction capability that supports after-the-fact investigations of incidents.
CCI-001878 - Provide a report generation capability that supports on-demand audit review and analysis.
CCI-001879 - Provide a report generation capability that supports on-demand reporting requirements.
CCI-001880 - Provide a report generation capability that supports after-the-fact investigations of security incidents.
CCI-001881 - Provide an audit reduction capability that does not alter original content or time ordering of audit records.
CCI-001882 - Provide a report generation capability that does not alter original content or time ordering of audit records.
CCI-001889 - Record time stamps for audit records that meet organization-defined granularity of time measurement.
CCI-001914 - Provide the capability for organization-defined individuals or roles to change the logging to be performed on organization-defined system components based on organization-defined selectable event criteria within organization-defined time thresholds.
CCI-002884 - Log organization-defined audit events for nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic sessions.
CCI-004188 - Monitor the use of maintenance tools that execute with increased privilege.

Weight

Fix Recommendation

To enable the auditd service run the following command:

$ sudo systemctl enable --now auditd

Check Contents

Verify the audit service is configured to produce audit records with the following command:

$ systemctl status auditd.service

auditd.service - Security Auditing Service
Loaded:loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/auditd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Tues 2022-05-24 12:56:56 EST; 4 weeks 0 days ago

If the audit service is not "active" and "running", this is a finding.

Vulnerability Number

V-258152

Documentable

False

Rule Version

RHEL-09-653015

Severity Override Guidance

Check Content Reference

Target Key

5551