STIGQter: STIG Summary: Cloud Linux AlmaLinux OS 9 Security Technical Implementation Guide Version: 1 Release: 7 Benchmark Date: 01 Jul 2026:

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

DISA Rule

SV-269474r1050357_rule

Vulnerability Number

V-269474

Group Title

SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015

Rule Version

ALMA-09-047980

Severity

CAT II

CCI(s)

CCI-000130 - Ensure that audit records containing information that establishes what type of event occurred.
CCI-000135 - Generate audit records containing the organization-defined additional information that is to be included in the 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-002884 - Log organization-defined audit events for nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic sessions.
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.

Weight

Fix Recommendation

Enable auditing of processes that start prior to the audit daemon with the following command:

$ grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="audit=1"

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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.

Vulnerability Number

V-269474

Documentable

False

Rule Version

ALMA-09-047980

Severity Override Guidance

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Target Key

5664