Cis Cassandra5 4.2

DevOps & Security

cis-cassandra5-4.2

Cis Cassandra5 4.2 is an Agent Skill for devops & security published in the CyberStrikeus/CyberStrike repository on GitHub: a SKILL.md instruction file an AI agent can load to do this task.

Ensure that auditing is enabled

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Ensure that auditing is enabled (Manual)

Profile Applicability

Level 1 - Cassandra on Linux

Description

Audit logging in Cassandra logs every incoming CQL command request, Authentication (successful as well as unsuccessful) to C* node. Currently, there are two implementations provided, the custom logger can be implemented and injected with the class name as a parameter in cassandra.yaml.

Rationale

Unauthorized attempts to create, drop or alter users or data should be a concern.

Impact

None

Audit Procedure

Allows logging to filesystem log files using logback or to a Cassandra table. When you turn on audit logging, the default is to write to logback filesystem log files. You can verify auditing is turned on:

cat cassandra.yaml | grep -Al "audit_logging_options"

If enabled is set to true, then success. Anything else is a finding.

Remediation

Open the cassandra.yaml file in a text editor

In the audit_logging_options section, set enabled to true.

# Audit logging options
audit_logging_options:
  enabled: true

Default Value

Auditing is disabled by default.

References

https://docs.datastax.com/en/datastax_enterprise/4.8/datastax_enterprise/sec/secAudit.html#secAudit

CIS Controls

Controls Version	Control	IG 1	IG 2	IG 3
v8	8.2 Collect Audit LogsCollect audit logs. Ensure that logging, per the enterprise's audit log management process, has been enabled across enterprise assets.	●	●	●
v7	6.2 Activate audit loggingEnsure that local logging has been enabled on all systems and networking devices.	●	●	●