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Database Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-APP-000231

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  • The DBMS must protect the confidentiality and integrity of all information at rest.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This control is intended to address the confidentiality and integrity of information at rest in non-mobile devices and covers...
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  • SRG-APP-000233

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  • The DBMS must isolate security functions from non-security functions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;An isolation boundary provides access control and protects the integrity of the hardware, software, and firmware that perform...
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  • SRG-APP-000243

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  • Database contents must be protected from unauthorized and unintended information transfer by enforcement of a data-transfer policy.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Applications, including DBMSs, must prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources. D...
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  • SRG-APP-000243

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  • The DBMS must prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The purpose of this control is to prevent information, including encrypted representations of information, produced by the ac...
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  • SRG-APP-000243

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  • Access to database files must be limited to relevant processes and to authorized, administrative users.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Applications, including DBMSs, must prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources. Per...
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  • SRG-APP-000251

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  • The DBMS must check the validity of all data inputs except those specifically identified by the organization.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Invalid user input occurs when a user inserts data or characters into an application's data entry fields and the application ...
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  • SRG-APP-000251

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  • The DBMS and associated applications must reserve the use of dynamic code execution for situations that require it.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;With respect to database management systems, one class of threat is known as SQL Injection, or more generally, code injection...
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  • SRG-APP-000251

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  • The DBMS and associated applications, when making use of dynamic code execution, must scan input data for invalid values that may indicate a code injection attack.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;With respect to database management systems, one class of threat is known as SQL Injection, or more generally, code injection...
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  • SRG-APP-000266

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  • The DBMS must provide non-privileged users with error messages that provide information necessary for corrective actions without revealing information that could be exploited by adversaries.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Any DBMS or associated application providing too much information in error messages on the screen or printout risks compromis...
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  • SRG-APP-000267

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  • The DBMS must reveal detailed error messages only to the ISSO, ISSM, SA and DBA.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the DBMS provides too much information in error logs and administrative messages to the screen, this could lead to comprom...
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  • SRG-APP-000295

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  • The DBMS must automatically terminate a user session after organization-defined conditions or trigger events requiring session disconnect.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;This addresses the termination of user-initiated logical sessions in contrast to the termination of network connections that ...
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  • SRG-APP-000296

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  • The DBMS must provide logout functionality to allow the user to manually terminate a session initiated by that user.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If a user cannot explicitly end a DBMS session, the session may remain open and be exploited by an attacker; this is referred...
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  • SRG-APP-000311

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  • The DBMS must associate organization-defined types of security labels having organization-defined security label values with information in storage.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the association of security labels to information, there is no basis for the DBMS to make security-related access-con...
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  • SRG-APP-000313

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  • The DBMS must associate organization-defined types of security labels having organization-defined security label values with information in process.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the association of security labels to information, there is no basis for the DBMS to make security-related access-con...
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  • SRG-APP-000314

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  • The DBMS must associate organization-defined types of security labels having organization-defined security label values with information in transmission.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the association of security labels to information, there is no basis for the DBMS to make security-related access-con...
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  • SRG-APP-000328

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  • The DBMS must enforce discretionary access control policies, as defined by the data owner, over defined subjects and objects.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the notion that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have di...
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  • SRG-APP-000340

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  • The DBMS must prevent non-privileged users from executing privileged functions, to include disabling, circumventing, or altering implemented security safeguards/countermeasures.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Preventing non-privileged users from executing privileged functions mitigates the risk that unauthorized individuals or proce...
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  • SRG-APP-000342

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  • Execution of software modules (to include stored procedures, functions, and triggers) with elevated privileges must be restricted to necessary cases only.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In certain situations, to provide required functionality, a DBMS needs to execute internal logic (stored procedures, function...
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  • SRG-APP-000356

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  • The DBMS must utilize centralized management of the content captured in audit records generated by all components of the DBMS.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the ability to centrally manage the content captured in the audit records, identification, troubleshooting, and corre...
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  • SRG-APP-000356

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  • The DBMS must provide centralized configuration of the content to be captured in audit records generated by all components of the DBMS.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the configuration of the DBMS's auditing is spread across multiple locations in the database management software, or acros...
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  • SRG-APP-000357

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  • The DBMS must allocate audit record storage capacity in accordance with organization-defined audit record storage requirements.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In order to ensure sufficient storage capacity for the audit logs, the DBMS must be able to allocate audit record storage cap...
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  • SRG-APP-000359

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  • The DBMS must provide a warning to appropriate support staff when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75% of maximum audit record storage capacity.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Organizations are required to use a central log management system, so, under normal conditions, the audit space allocated to ...
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  • SRG-APP-000360

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  • The DBMS must provide an immediate real-time alert to appropriate support staff of all audit log failures.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required....
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  • SRG-APP-000374

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  • The DBMS must record time stamps, in audit records and application data, that can be mapped to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC, formerly GMT).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If time stamps are not consistently applied and there is no common time reference, it is difficult to perform forensic analys...
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  • SRG-APP-000375

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  • The DBMS must generate time stamps, for audit records and application data, with a minimum granularity of one second.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without sufficient granularity of time stamps, it is not possible to adequately determine the chronological order of records....
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