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Database Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-APP-000178

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

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The DoD standard for authentication is DoD-approved PKI certificates. Normally, with PKI authentication, the interaction wit...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000179

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  • The DBMS 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 utilizing encryption and digital signatures ...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000180

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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...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000243

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  • The DBMS must uniquely identify and authenticate non-organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of non-organizational users).

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

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  • The DBMS 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

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