Vulnerability Discussion
Reconstruction of harmful events or forensic analysis is not possible if audit records do not contain enough information.
At a minimum, the organization must audit the full-text recording of privileged mount commands. The organization must maintain audit trails in sufficient detail to reconstruct events to determine the cause and impact of compromise.
When a user logs on, the auid is set to the uid of the account that is being authenticated. Daemons are not user sessions and have the loginuid set to -1. The auid representation is an unsigned 32-bit integer, which equals 4294967295. The audit system interprets -1, 4294967295, and "unset" in the same way.
Satisfies: SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00020, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172
Check
Verify the operating system generates audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to use the "mount" command and syscall occur.
Check that the following system call is being audited by performing the following series of commands to check the file system rules in "/etc/audit/audit.rules":
$ sudo grep -w "mount" /etc/audit/audit.rules
-a always,exit -F arch=b32 -S mount -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=unset -k privileged-mount
-a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S mount -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=unset -k privileged-mount
-a always,exit -F path=/usr/bin/mount -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=unset -k privileged-mount
If both the "b32" and "b64" audit rules are not defined for the "mount" syscall, this is a finding.
If the use of the "mount" command and syscall are not being audited, this is a finding.
Fix
Configure the operating system to generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to use the "mount" command and syscall occur.
Add or update the following rules in "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules":
-a always,exit -F arch=b32 -S mount -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=unset -k privileged-mount
-a always,exit -F arch=b64 -S mount -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=unset -k privileged-mount
-a always,exit -F path=/usr/bin/mount -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F auid!=unset -k privileged-mount
The audit daemon must be restarted for the changes to take effect.