Crunchy Data PostgreSQL Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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SRG-APP-000148-DB-000103
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PostgreSQL must uniquely identify and authenticate organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of organizational users).
<VulnDiscussion>To ensure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated to pre...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000295-DB-000305
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PostgreSQL must automatically terminate a user session after organization-defined conditions or trigger events requiring session disconnect.
<VulnDiscussion>This addresses the termination of user-initiated logical sessions in contrast to the termination of network connections that ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000340-DB-000304
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
PostgreSQL must prevent non-privileged users from executing privileged functions, to include disabling, circumventing, or altering implemented security safeguards/countermeasures.
<VulnDiscussion>Preventing non-privileged users from executing privileged functions mitigates the risk that unauthorized individuals or proce...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000177-DB-000069
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
PostgreSQL must map the PKI-authenticated identity to an associated user account.
<VulnDiscussion>The DoD standard for authentication is DoD-approved PKI certificates. Once a PKI certificate has been validated, it must be m...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000243-DB-000128
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Database contents must be protected from unauthorized and unintended information transfer by enforcement of a data-transfer policy.
<VulnDiscussion>Applications, including PostgreSQL, must prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000243-DB-000374
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Access to database files must be limited to relevant processes and to authorized, administrative users.
<VulnDiscussion>Applications, including PostgreSQL, must prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000122-DB-000203
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
PostgreSQL must protect its audit configuration from unauthorized modification.
<VulnDiscussion>Protecting audit data also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefore, pro...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000179-DB-000114
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
PostgreSQL must use NIST FIPS 140-2 or 140-3 validated cryptographic modules for cryptographic operations.
<VulnDiscussion>Use of weak or not validated cryptographic algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption and digital signatures ...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000502-DB-000348
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Audit records must be generated when categorized information (e.g., classification levels/security levels) is deleted.
<VulnDiscussion>Changes in categorized information must be tracked. Without an audit trail, unauthorized access to protected data could go un...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000507-DB-000356
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
PostgreSQL must generate audit records when successful accesses to objects occur.
<VulnDiscussion>Without tracking all or selected types of access to all or selected objects (tables, views, procedures, functions, etc.), it ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000508-DB-000358
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
PostgreSQL must generate audit records for all direct access to the database(s).
<VulnDiscussion>In this context, direct access is any query, command, or call to the DBMS that comes from any source other than the applicati...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000179-DB-000114
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DBMS must be configured on a platform that has a NIST certified FIPS 140-2 or 140-3 installation of OpenSSL.
<VulnDiscussion>PostgreSQL uses OpenSSL for the underlying encryption layer. It must be installed on an operating system that contains a cert...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000456-DB-000400
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
PostgreSQL products must be a version supported by the vendor.
<VulnDiscussion>Unsupported commercial and database systems should not be used because fixes to newly identified bugs will not be implemented...Rule High Severity -
PostgreSQL must use NSA-approved cryptography to protect classified information in accordance with the data owner’s requirements.
<VulnDiscussion>Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to protect data. The applicatio...Rule High Severity -
PostgreSQL must implement NIST FIPS 140-2 or 140-3 validated cryptographic modules to protect unclassified information requiring confidentiality and cryptographic protection, in accordance with the data owner’s requirements.
<VulnDiscussion>Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to protect data. The applicatio...Rule High Severity
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