O121-C2-008000 - The DBMS must include organization-defined additional, more detailed information in the audit records for audit events identified by type, location, or subject.

Information

Information system auditing capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Audit record content that may be necessary to satisfy the requirement of this control includes: timestamps, source and destination addresses, user/process identifiers, event descriptions, success/fail indications, file names involved, and access control or flow control rules invoked.

In addition, the application must have the capability to include organization-defined additional, more detailed information in the audit records for audit events. These events may be identified by type, location, or subject.

An example of detailed information the organization may require in audit records is full-text recording of privileged commands or the individual identities of shared account users.

Some organizations may determine that more detailed information is required for specific database event types. If this information is not available, it could negatively impact forensic investigations into user actions or other malicious events.

Solution

Either configure the DBMS's auditing to audit organization-defined auditable events, or, if preferred, use a third-party or custom tool. The tool must provide the minimum capability to audit the required events.

If using a third-party product, proceed in accordance with the product documentation. If using Oracle's capabilities, proceed as follows.

If Standard Auditing is used:
Use this process to ensure auditable events are captured:

ALTER SYSTEM SET AUDIT_TRAIL=<audit trail type> SCOPE=SPFILE;

Audit trail type can be 'OS', 'DB', 'DB,EXTENDED', 'XML' or 'XML,EXTENDED'.

After executing this statement, it may be necessary to shut down and restart the Oracle database.

If the organization-defined additional audit requirements are not covered by the default audit options, deploy and configure Fine-Grained Auditing. For details, refer to Oracle documentation at the location below.

If the site-specific audit requirements are not covered by the default audit options, deploy and configure Fine-Grained Auditing. For details, refer to Oracle documentation, at the location below.

If Unified Auditing is used:
Use this process to ensure auditable events are captured:

SELECT * FROM V$OPTION WHERE PARAMETER = 'Unified Auditing';

If Oracle returns the value 'TRUE', this is not a finding.

Otherwise,
Link the oracle binary with uniaud_on, and then restart the database. Oracle Database Upgrade Guide describes how to enable unified auditing.

If the organization-defined additional audit requirements are not covered by the default audit options, deploy and configure Fine-Grained Auditing. For details, refer to Oracle documentation at the location below.

If the site-specific audit requirements are not covered by the default audit options, deploy and configure Fine-Grained Auditing. For details, refer to Oracle documentation, at the location below.

For more information on the configuration of auditing, refer to the following documents:
'Auditing Database Activity' in the Oracle Database 2 Day + Security Guide:
http://docs.oracle.com/database/121/TDPSG/tdpsg_auditing.htm#TDPSG50000
'Monitoring Database Activity with Auditing' in the Oracle Database Security Guide:
http://docs.oracle.com/database/121/DBSEG/part_6.htm#CCHEHCGI
'DBMS_AUDIT_MGMT' in the Oracle Database PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference:
http://docs.oracle.com/database/121/ARPLS/d_audit_mgmt.htm#ARPLS241
Oracle Database Upgrade Guide:
http://docs.oracle.com/database/121/UPGRD/afterup.htm#UPGRD52810

Item Details

Audit Name: DISA STIG Oracle 12c v3r1 Database

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

Plugin: OracleDB

Control ID: f57190fd1ac1d0b9a8c46764371f8c8c0e6d81204c1fda6f12365cd9a7565b63

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O121-C2-008000 - The DBMS must include organization-defined additional, more detailed information in the audit records for audit events identified by type, location, or subject.

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