Details of the event with ID 4898 of the source Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing

Event Source:	Microsoft Windows Security Auditing
Event ID:	4898 (0x1322)
Event log:	Security
Event type:	Information
Event text (English):	Certificate Services loaded a template. %1 v%2 (Schema V%3) %4 %5 Template Information: Template Content: %7 Security Descriptor: %8 Additional Information: Domain Controller: %6
Event text (German):	Certificate Services have loaded a template. %1 v%2 (Scheme V%3) %4 %5 Template information: Template content: %7 Security description: %8 Additional information: Domain Controller: %6

Parameter

The parameters contained in the event text are filled with the following fields:

• %1: TemplateInternalName (win:UnicodeString)
• %2: TemplateVersion (win:UnicodeString)
• %3: TemplateSchemaVersion (win:UnicodeString)
• %4: TemplateOID (win:UnicodeString)
• %5: TemplateDSObjectFQDN (win:UnicodeString)
• %6: DCDNSName (win:UnicodeString)
• %7: TemplateContent (win:UnicodeString)
• %8: SecurityDescriptor (win:UnicodeString)

In contrast to operational events, which are often understood under the term "monitoring", auditing for the certification authority is the configuration of logging of security-relevant events.

Example events

 Certificate Services loaded a template. 
  
 ADCSLaborNDES v100.11 (Scheme V2) 
 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.21.8.6301991.2938543.412570.1725121.735828.231.3300970.10789002 
 CN=ADCSLaborNDES,CN=Certificate Templates,CN=Public Key Services,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=intra,DC=adcslabor,DC=de 
  
 Template Information: 
 	Template Content:		
 flags = 0x20241 (131649)
   CT_FLAG_ENROLLEE_SUPPLIES_SUBJECT -- 0x1
   CT_FLAG_MACHINE_TYPE -- 0x40 (64)
   CT_FLAG_ADD_TEMPLATE_NAME -- 0x200 (512)
   CT_FLAG_IS_MODIFIED -- 0x20000 (131072)
 
 msPKI private key flag = 0x1010000 (16842752)
   CTPRIVATEKEY_FLAG_ATTEST_NONE -- 0x0
   TEMPLATE_SERVER_VER_2003<   TEMPLATE_CLIENT_VER_XP< 
 msPKI certificate name flag = 0x1 (1)
   CT_FLAG_ENROLLEE_SUPPLIES_SUBJECT -- 0x1
 
 msPKI enrollment flag = 0x0 (0)
 
 msPKI template schema version = 2
 
 revision = 100
 
 msPKI template minor revision = 11
 
 msPKI-RA-Signature = 0
 
 msPKI minimum key size = 3072
 
 pKIDefaultKeySpec = 1
 
 pKIExpirationPeriod = 2 Years
 
 pKIOverlapPeriod = 6 Weeks
 
 cn = ADCSLaborNDES
 
 distinguishedName = ADCSLaborNDES
 
 msPKI-Cert-Template-OID =
   1.3.6.1.4.1.311.21.8.6301991.2938543.412570.1725121.735828.231.3300970.10789002 ADCS Labor NDES
 
 pKIKeyUsage = a0
 
 displayName = ADCS Lab NDES
 
 templateDescription = Computer
 
 pKIExtendedKeyUsage =
   1.3.6.1.5.5.8.2.2 IP security IKE intermediate
 
 pKIDefaultCSPs =
   Microsoft RSA SChannel Cryptographic Provider
 
 msPKI-Supersede-Templates =
 
 msPKI RA policies =
 
 msPKI-RA-Application-Policies =
 
 msPKI-Certificate-Policy =
 
 msPKI-Certificate-Application-Policy =
   1.3.6.1.5.5.8.2.2 IP security IKE intermediate
 
 pKICriticalExtensions =
   2.5.29.15 Key Usage
  
 	Security Descriptor: O:S-1-5-21-1381186052-4247692386-135928078-500G:S-1-5-21-1381186052-4247692386-135928078-519D:PAI(OA;;CR;0e10c968-78fb-11d2-90d4-00c04f79dc55;;S-1-5-21-1381186052-4247692386-135928078-1109)(OA;;CR;0e10c968-78fb-11d2-90d4-00c04f79dc55;;S-1-5-21-1381186052-4247692386-135928078-1162)(OA;;CR;0e10c968-78fb-11d2-90d4-00c04f79dc55;;S-1-5-21-1381186052-4247692386-135928078-1171)(OA;;CR;0e10c968-78fb-11d2-90d4-00c04f79dc55;;S-1-5-21-1381186052-4247692386-135928078-1172)(OA;;RPWPCR;0e10c968-78fb-11d2-90d4-00c04f79dc55;;DA)(OA;;RPWPCR;0e10c968-78fb-11d2-90d4-00c04f79dc55;;S-1-5-21-1381186052-4247692386-135928078-519)(OA;;CR;0e10c968-78fb-11d2-90d4-00c04f79dc55;;AU)(A;;LCRPRC;;;S-1-5-21-1381186052-4247692386-135928078-1109)(A;;LCRPRC;;;S-1-5-21-1381186052-4247692386-135928078-1162)(A;;LCRPRC;;;S-1-5-21-1381186052-4247692386-135928078-1171)(A;;LCRPRC;;;S-1-5-21-1381186052-4247692386-135928078-1172)(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOSDRCWDWO;;;DA)(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOSDRCWDWO;;;S-1-5-21-1381186052-4247692386-135928078-519)(A;;CCDCLCSWRPWPDTLOSDRCWDWO;;;S-1-5-21-1381186052-4247692386-135928078-500)(A;;LCRPLORC;;;AU)
 
 Allow S-1-5-21-1381186052-4247692386-135928078-1109
 	Enroll
 Allow INTRA\rudi
 	Enroll
 Allow S-1-5-21-1381186052-4247692386-135928078-1171
 	Enroll
 Allow S-1-5-21-1381186052-4247692386-135928078-1172
 	Enroll
 Allow INTRA\Domain Admins
 	Enroll
 Allow INTRA\Enterprise Admins
 	Enroll
 Allow NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users
 	Enroll
 Allow(0x00020014) S-1-5-21-1381186052-4247692386-135928078-1109
 	Read
 Allow(0x00020014) INTRA\rudi
 	Read
 Allow(0x00020014) S-1-5-21-1381186052-4247692386-135928078-1171
 	Read
 Allow(0x00020014) S-1-5-21-1381186052-4247692386-135928078-1172
 	Read
 Allow(0x000f00ff) INTRA\Domain Admins
 	Full Control
 Allow(0x000f00ff) INTRA\Enterprise Admins
 	Full Control
 Allow(0x000f00ff) INTRA\Administrator
 	Full Control
 Allow(0x00020094) NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users
 	Read
  
  
 Additional Information: 
 	Domain Controller: DC01.intra.adcslabor.de 

Description

In order for the certification authorities to log the security setting changes to certificate templates, the following command must be executed once on each certification authority:

certutil -setreg policy\EditFlags +EDITF_AUDITCERTTEMPLATELOAD

No description has been written for this yet.

Safety assessment

The security assessment is based on the three dimensions of confidentiality, integrity and availability.

No description has been written for this yet.

Microsoft rating

Microsoft evaluates this event in the Securing Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Whitepaper with a severity rating of "Medium".

The reasoning behind this is:

Alert if templates that are not expected on a CA are loaded.

Related links:

• Overview of audit events generated by the Certification Authority
• Overview of the audit events generated by the online responder (OCSP)

External sources

• Securing Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) (Microsoft)
• Securing PKI: Monitoring Public Key Infrastructure (Microsoft)