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EDB Postgres Advanced Server v11 on Windows Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-APP-000295-DB-000305

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    Group
  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server 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 ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000311-DB-000308

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    Group
  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server 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 EDB Postgres Advanced Server to make securit...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000313-DB-000309

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server 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 EDB Postgres Advanced Server to make securit...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000314-DB-000310

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server 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 EDB Postgres Advanced Server to make securit...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000328-DB-000301

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • EDB Postgres Advanced Server 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...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000340-DB-000304

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server 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...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000342-DB-000302

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • 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 must execute internal logic (stored procedures, functions, t...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000342-DB-000302

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • 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 must execute internal logic (stored procedures, functions, t...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000356-DB-000314

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must utilize centralized management of the content captured in audit records generated by all components of the EDB Postgres Advanced Server.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the ability to centrally manage the content captured in the audit records, identification, troubleshooting, and corre...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000356-DB-000315

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must provide centralized configuration of the content to be captured in audit records generated by all components of the EDB Postgres Advanced Server.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the configuration of the DBMS's auditing is spread across multiple locations in the database management software, or acros...
    Rule Medium Severity

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