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Install and initialize AIDE

aide-installed · RHEL ≥ 8, UBUNTU ≥ 22 · 2 impls

Description

AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) must be installed and its database initialized to provide filesystem integrity monitoring. AIDE detects unauthorized modifications to system files.

Rationale

Without file integrity monitoring, unauthorized modifications to critical system files (binaries, libraries, configuration) may go undetected. AIDE provides a baseline against which changes are compared.

Check → Remediate

Checkcomposed · 2 sub-checks (all must pass)
1. package_state:
name=aide state=present
2. file_exists:
path=/var/lib/aide/aide.db.gz
Remediatepackage_present
name:
aide

Framework references

CIS

rhel8 6.1.1rhel9 6.1.1rhel10 6.1.1

STIG

V-230263 / RHEL-08-010360V-251710 / RHEL-08-010359V-258134 / RHEL-09-651010V-280977 / RHEL-10-200630V-270649 / UBTU-24-100100V-260582 / UBTU-22-651010

NIST 800-53

SC-28SI-7

Live verification

rhel10:checkrhel8:checkrhel9:checkubuntu22:fullubuntu24:full
#aide#file-integrity#intrusion-detection