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Ensure That auditd Is Enabled

🗓️ 07 May 2025 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2025 Greenbone AGType 
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Auditd must be enabled to audit critical files; it reads rules from /etc/audit/audit.rules and is configured by /etc/audit/auditd.conf.

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

# ------------------------------------------------------------------
# METADATA
# ------------------------------------------------------------------

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.130284");
  script_version("2025-11-21T05:40:28+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-11-21 05:40:28 +0000 (Fri, 21 Nov 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2025-05-07 11:44:17 +0000 (Wed, 07 May 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"0.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"qod", value:"97");

  script_name("Ensure That auditd Is Enabled");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2025 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Policy");
  script_dependencies("compliance_tests.nasl", "compliance_os_check.nasl");

  script_mandatory_keys("Compliance/Launch", "policy/ssh/login/euleros_eulerosvirtual_openeuler");

  script_xref(name:"Policy", value:"EulerOS Baseline: openEuler Security Configuration Baseline (v1.0.0): 4. Log Audit: 4.1 Audit: 4.1.1 Ensure That auditd Is Enabled (Requirement)");
  script_xref(name:"Policy", value:"EulerOS Virtual: openEuler Security Configuration Baseline (v1.0.0): 4. Log Audit: 4.1 Audit: 4.1.1 Ensure That auditd Is Enabled (Requirement)");
  script_xref(name:"Policy", value:"openEuler Baseline: openEuler Security Configuration Baseline (v1.0.0): 4. Log Audit: 4.1 Audit: 4.1.1 Ensure That auditd Is Enabled (Requirement)");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The auditd component is a user-space component of the Linux
audit framework, providing the auditctl, ausearch, and aureport programs to audit and view logs.
Audit rules are configured using the auditctl program. When getting started, auditctl reads these
rules from /etc/audit/audit.rules. The audit daemon can be customized using the
/etc/audit/auditd.conf file. The other two components are audispd and autrace. audispd is used to
send event notifications to other applications, while autrace is used to trace system calls in a
way similar to strace. Some files in the system are important and cannot be modified. It is
necessary to use auditd to audit such files.

The audit function is required by default in openEuler.");

  exit(0);
}

include("ssh_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
include("policy_reporting_module.inc");

title = "Ensure That auditd Is Enabled";

solution = "Enable and start auditd.service.

# systemctl enable auditd.service
# systemctl start auditd.service";

check_type = "SSH_Cmd";

action = '1. Run the command in the terminal:
# systemctl is-enabled auditd.service

2. Run the command in the terminal:
# systemctl is-active auditd.service';

expected_value = '1. The output should be equal to "enabled"
2. The output should be equal to "active"';

# ------------------------------------------------------------------
# CONNECTION CHECK
# ------------------------------------------------------------------

if(!get_kb_item("login/SSH/success") || !sock = ssh_login_or_reuse_connection()){

  report_ssh_error(title: title,
                   solution: solution,
                   action: action,
                   expected_value: expected_value,
                   check_type: check_type);
  exit(0);
}

overall_pass = FALSE;
actual_value = "";

# ------------------------------------------------------------------
# CHECK 1 :  Ensure That auditd Is Enabled
# ------------------------------------------------------------------

step_cmd_check_1 = 'systemctl is-enabled auditd.service';
step_res_check_1 = ssh_cmd(socket:sock, cmd:step_cmd_check_1, return_errors:TRUE, return_linux_errors_only:TRUE);
actual_value += '1. ' + step_res_check_1 + '\n';
check_result_1 = FALSE;

if(step_res_check_1 == 'enabled'){
  check_result_1 = TRUE;
}

# ------------------------------------------------------------------
# CHECK 2 :  Ensure That auditd Is Active
# ------------------------------------------------------------------

step_cmd_check_2 = 'systemctl is-active auditd.service';
step_res_check_2 = ssh_cmd(socket:sock, cmd:step_cmd_check_2, return_errors:TRUE, return_linux_errors_only:TRUE);
actual_value += '2. ' + step_res_check_2 + '\n';
check_result_2 = FALSE;

if(step_res_check_2 == 'active'){
  check_result_2 = TRUE;
}

# ------------------------------------------------------------------
# FINAL RESULT
# ------------------------------------------------------------------

if(eregmatch(string: actual_value, pattern:"(No such file or directory|Permission denied|Command not found|Segmentation fault|service not found|is not running|syntax error near unexpected token|syntax error: unexpected end of file)", icase: TRUE)){
  compliant = "incomplete";
  comment = "Something went wrong during the some audit check. Please try again.";
}
else if(check_result_1 && check_result_2){
  compliant = "yes";
  comment = "All checks passed";
}else{
  compliant = "no";
  comment = "One or more checks failed";
}

# ------------------------------------------------------------------
# REPORT
# ------------------------------------------------------------------

target = get_kb_item("policy/ssh/login/os-release");
comment = "Target: " + target + "\n" + comment;

report_audit(action: action,
             actual_value: actual_value,
             expected_value: expected_value,
             is_compliant: compliant,
             solution: solution,
             check_type: check_type,
             title: title,
             comment: comment);

exit(0);

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