Vulnerability Discussion

If option "freq" is not set to a value that requires audit records being written to disk after a threshold number is reached, then audit records may be lost.

Check

Verify that audit system is configured to flush to disk after every 100 records with the following command:

$ sudo grep freq /etc/audit/auditd.conf

freq = 100

If "freq" isn't set to a value of "100" or greater, the value is missing, or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure RHEL 9 to flush audit to disk by adding or updating the following rule in "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules":

freq = 100

The audit daemon must be restarted for the changes to take effect.