The application server must generate log records for all account creations, modifications, disabling, and termination events.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-204830	SRG-APP-000509-AS-000234	SV-204830r961842_rule		Medium

Description

The maintenance of user accounts is a key activity within the system to determine access and privileges. Through changes to accounts, an attacker can create an account for persistent access, modify an account to elevate privileges or terminate/disable an account(s) to cause a DoS for user(s). To be able to track and investigate these actions, log records must be generated for any account modification functions. Application servers either provide a local user store, or they can integrate with enterprise user stores like LDAP. As such, the application server must be able to generate log records on account creation, modification, disabling, and termination.

STIG	Date
Application Server Security Requirements Guide	2025-02-11

Details

Check Text (C-4950r283131_chk)

Review the application server documentation and the system configuration to determine if the application server generates log records when accounts are created, modified, disabled, or terminated.

If the application server does not generate log records for account creation, modification, disabling, and termination, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-4950r283132_fix)

Configure the application server to generate log records when accounts are created, modified, disabled, or terminated.