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MongoDB Enterprise Advanced 4.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The audit information produced by MongoDB must be protected from unauthorized access.

    If audit data were to become compromised, then competent forensic analysis and discovery of the true source of potentially malicious system activity is difficult, if not impossible, to achieve. In ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • MongoDB must uniquely identify and authenticate non-organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of non-organizational users).

    Non-organizational users include all information system users other than organizational users, which include organizational employees or individuals the organization deems to have equivalent status...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • MongoDB and associated applications must reserve the use of dynamic code execution for situations that require it.

    With respect to database management systems, one class of threat is known as SQL Injection, or more generally, code injection. It takes advantage of the dynamic execution capabilities of various pr...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • MongoDB must implement cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized modification of organization-defined information at rest (to include, at a minimum, PII and classified information) on organization-defined information system components.

    DBMSs handling data requiring "data at rest" protections must employ cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized disclosure and modification of the information at rest. These cryptographic mec...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • MongoDB software installation account must be restricted to authorized users.

    When dealing with change control issues, it should be noted any changes to the hardware, software, and/or firmware components of the information system and/or application can have significant effec...
    Rule High Severity
  • The role(s)/group(s) used to modify database structure (including but not necessarily limited to tables, indexes, storage, etc.) and logic modules (stored procedures, functions, triggers, links to software external to MongoDB, etc.) must be restricted to authorized users.

    If MongoDB were to allow any user to make changes to database structure or logic, then those changes might be implemented without undergoing the appropriate testing and approvals that are part of a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • Unused database components that are integrated in MongoDB and cannot be uninstalled must be disabled.

    Information systems are capable of providing a wide variety of functions and services. Some of the functions and services, provided by default, may not be necessary to support essential organizatio...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • If passwords are used for authentication, MongoDB must implement LDAP or Kerberos for authentication to enforce the DoD standards for password complexity and lifetime.

    OS/enterprise authentication and identification must be used (SRG-APP-000023-DB-000001). Native DBMS authentication may be used only when circumstances make it unavoidable, and must be documented a...
    Rule High Severity
  • MongoDB must enforce authorized access to all PKI private keys stored/utilized by MongoDB.

    The DoD standard for authentication is DoD-approved PKI certificates. PKI certificate-based authentication is performed by requiring the certificate holder to cryptographically prove possession of ...
    Rule High Severity
  • MongoDB must protect the confidentiality and integrity of all information at rest.

    This control is intended to address the confidentiality and integrity of information at rest in non-mobile devices and covers user information and system information. Information at rest refers to ...
    Rule High Severity

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