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EnterpriseDB Postgres Advanced Server (EPAS) Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-APP-000133-DB-000179

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  • EDB Postgres Advanced Server software modules, to include stored procedures, functions, and triggers must be monitored to discover unauthorized changes.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the system were to allow any user to make changes to software libraries, then those changes might be implemented without u...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000133-DB-000198

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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server software installation account must be restricted to authorized users.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When dealing with change control issues, it should be noted any changes to the hardware, software, and/or firmware components...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000133-DB-000199

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  • Database software, including EDB Postgres Advanced Server configuration files, must be stored in dedicated directories, separate from the host OS and other applications.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When dealing with change control issues, it should be noted any changes to the hardware, software, and/or firmware components...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000133-DB-000200

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  • Database objects must be owned by database/EDB Postgres Advanced Server principals authorized for ownership.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Database objects include but are not limited to tables, indexes, storage, stored procedures, functions, triggers, and links t...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000133-DB-000362

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  • The role(s)/group(s) used to modify database structure and logic modules must be restricted to authorized users.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Database structures include but are not necessarily limited to tables, indexes, storage, etc. Logic modules are objects such...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141-DB-000090

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  • Default, demonstration and sample databases, database objects, and applications must be removed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information systems are capable of providing a wide variety of functions and services. Some of the functions and services, pr...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141-DB-000091

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  • Unused database components, EDB Postgres Advanced Server software, and database objects must be removed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information systems are capable of providing a wide variety of functions and services. Some of the functions and services, pr...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141-DB-000092

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  • Unused database components which are integrated in the EDB Postgres Advanced Server and cannot be uninstalled must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information systems are capable of providing a wide variety of functions and services. Some of the functions and services, pr...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141-DB-000093

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  • Access to external executables must be disabled or restricted.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information systems are capable of providing a wide variety of functions and services. Some of the functions and services, pr...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000142-DB-000094

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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must be configured to prohibit or restrict the use of organization-defined functions, ports, protocols, and/or services, as defined in the PPSM CAL and vulnerability assessments.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In order to prevent unauthorized connection of devices, unauthorized transfer of information, or unauthorized tunneling (i.e....
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000148-DB-000103

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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must uniquely identify and authenticate organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of organizational users).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated to pre...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000164-DB-000401

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  • If DBMS authentication, using passwords, is employed, EDB Postgres Advanced Server must enforce the DOD standards for password complexity and lifetime.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;OS/enterprise authentication and identification must be used (SRG-APP-000023-DB-000001). Native DBMS authentication may be us...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000171-DB-000074

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  • If passwords are used for authentication, the EDB Postgres Advanced Server must store only hashed, salted representations of passwords.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The DOD standard for authentication is DOD-approved PKI certificates. Authentication based on User ID and Password may be us...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000172-DB-000075

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  • If passwords are used for authentication, the EDB Postgres Advanced Server must transmit only encrypted representations of passwords.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The DOD standard for authentication is DOD-approved PKI certificates. Authentication based on User ID and Password may be us...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000175-DB-000067

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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server, when utilizing PKI-based authentication, must validate certificates by performing RFC 5280-compliant certification path validation.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The DOD standard for authentication is DOD-approved PKI certificates. A certificate's certification path is the path from th...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000176-DB-000068

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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must enforce authorized access to all PKI private keys stored/used by the EDB Postgres Advanced Server.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The DOD standard for authentication is DOD-approved PKI certificates. PKI certificate-based authentication is performed by re...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000177-DB-000069

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  • The DBMS must map the PKI-authenticated identity to an associated user account.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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-000178-DB-000083

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  • When using command-line tools such as psql, users must use a logon method that does not expose the password.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To prevent the compromise of authentication information, such as passwords and PINs, during the authentication process, the f...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000178-DB-000083

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  • Applications must obscure feedback of authentication information during the authentication process to protect the information from possible exploitation/use by unauthorized individuals.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To prevent the compromise of authentication information, such as passwords and PINs, during the authentication process, the f...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000179-DB-000114

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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must use NIST FIPS 140-2 or 140-3 validated cryptographic modules for cryptographic operations.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Use of weak or not validated cryptographic algorithms undermines the purposes of using encryption and digital signatures to p...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000179-DB-000114

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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must be configured on a platform that has a NIST-certified FIPS 140-2 or 140-3 installation of OpenSSL.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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-000180-DB-000115

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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must uniquely identify and authenticate nonorganizational users (or processes acting on behalf of nonorganizational users).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Nonorganizational users include all information system users other than organizational users, which include organizational em...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000211-DB-000122

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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must separate user functionality (including user interface services) from database management functionality.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information system management functionality includes functions necessary to administer databases, network components, worksta...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000220-DB-000149

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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must invalidate session identifiers upon user logout or other session termination.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Captured sessions can be reused in "replay" attacks. This requirement limits the ability of adversaries to capture and contin...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000231-DB-000154

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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server 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 nonmobile devices and covers ...
    Rule High Severity

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