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Database Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

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

    <VulnDiscussion>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 generate audit records when privileges/permissions are added.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Changes in the permissions, privileges, and roles granted to users and roles must be tracked. Without an audit trail, unautho...
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  • SRG-APP-000495

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  • The DBMS must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to add privileges/permissions occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Failed attempts to change the permissions, privileges, and roles granted to users and roles must be tracked. Without an audit...
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  • SRG-APP-000495

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  • The DBMS must generate audit records when privileges/permissions are modified.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Changes in the permissions, privileges, and roles granted to users and roles must be tracked. Without an audit trail, unautho...
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  • SRG-APP-000495

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  • The DBMS must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to modify privileges/permissions occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Failed attempts to change the permissions, privileges, and roles granted to users and roles must be tracked. Without an audit...
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  • SRG-APP-000496

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  • The DBMS must generate audit records when security objects are modified.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Changes in the database objects (tables, views, procedures, functions) that record and control permissions, privileges, and r...
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  • SRG-APP-000496

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  • The DBMS must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to modify security objects occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Changes in the database objects (tables, views, procedures, functions) that record and control permissions, privileges, and r...
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  • SRG-APP-000498

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  • The DBMS must generate audit records when categories of information (e.g., classification levels/security levels) are modified.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Changes in categories of information must be tracked. Without an audit trail, unauthorized access to protected data could go ...
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  • SRG-APP-000498

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  • The DBMS must allow only the ISSM (or individuals or roles appointed by the ISSM) to select which auditable events are to be audited.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to restrict which roles and individuals can select which events are audited, unauthorized personnel ma...
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  • SRG-APP-000091

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  • The DBMS must be able to generate audit records when privileges/permissions are retrieved.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Under some circumstances, it may be useful to monitor who/what is reading privilege/permission/role information. Therefore, i...
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  • SRG-APP-000091

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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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  • The DBMS must disable accounts when the accounts are no longer associated to a user.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Disabling expired, inactive, or otherwise anomalous accounts supports the concepts of least privilege and least functionality...
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  • SRG-APP-000745

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  • The DBMS must implement the capability to centrally review and analyze audit records from multiple components within the system.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Automated mechanisms for centralized reviews and analyses include Security Information and Event Management products.&lt;/Vul...
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  • SRG-APP-000795

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  • The DBMS must provide protected storage for cryptographic keys with organization-defined safeguards and/or hardware protected key store.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;A Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is an example of a hardware-protected data store that can be used to protect cryptographic ke...
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  • SRG-APP-000920

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  • The DBMS must protect nonlocal maintenance sessions by separating the maintenance session from other network sessions with the system by logically separated communications paths.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic activities are conducted by individuals who communicate through either an external or int...
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  • SRG-APP-000910

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  • SRG-APP-000023

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  • The DBMS must integrate with an organization-level authentication/access mechanism providing account management and automation for all users, groups, roles, and any other principals.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Enterprise environments make account management for applications and databases challenging and complex. A manual process for ...
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  • SRG-APP-000033

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  • The DBMS must enforce approved authorizations for logical access to information and system resources in accordance with applicable access control policies.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Authentication with a DoD-approved PKI certificate does not necessarily imply authorization to access the DBMS. To mitigate ...
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  • SRG-APP-000080

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  • The DBMS must protect against a user falsely repudiating having performed organization-defined actions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Non-repudiation of actions taken is required in order to maintain data integrity. Examples of particular actions taken by ind...
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  • SRG-APP-000089

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  • The DBMS must provide audit record generation capability for DoD-defined auditable events within all DBMS/database components.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events r...
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  • SRG-APP-000090

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  • The DBMS must be able to generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to retrieve privileges/permissions occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Under some circumstances, it may be useful to monitor who/what is reading privilege/permission/role information. Therefore, i...
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  • SRG-APP-000092

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  • The DBMS must initiate session auditing upon startup.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Session auditing is for use when a user's activities are under investigation. To be sure of capturing all activity during tho...
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  • SRG-APP-000095

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  • The DBMS must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish what type of events occurred.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information system auditing capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Without establishing what type of event oc...
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  • SRG-APP-000096

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  • The DBMS must produce audit records containing time stamps to establish when the events occurred.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information system auditing capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Without establishing when events occurred,...
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  • SRG-APP-000097

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  • The DBMS must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish where the events occurred.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information system auditing capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Without establishing where events occurred...
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  • SRG-APP-000098

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  • The DBMS must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish the sources (origins) of the events.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information system auditing capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Without establishing the source of the eve...
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