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Database Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-APP-000503

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The DBMS must generate audit records when successful logons or connections occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;For completeness of forensic analysis, it is necessary to track who/what (a user or other principal) logs on to the DBMS.&lt;...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000503

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The DBMS must generate audit records when unsuccessful logons or connection attempts occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;For completeness of forensic analysis, it is necessary to track failed attempts to log on to the DBMS. While positive identif...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000504

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The DBMS must generate audit records for all privileged activities or other system-level access.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without tracking privileged activity, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000504

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The DBMS must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to execute privileged activities or other system-level access occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without tracking privileged activity, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000505

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The DBMS must generate audit records when concurrent logons/connections by the same user from different workstations occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;For completeness of forensic analysis, it is necessary to track who logs on to the DBMS. Concurrent connections by the same ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000507

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The DBMS must be able to generate audit records when successful accesses to objects occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without tracking all or selected types of access to all or selected objects (tables, views, procedures, functions, etc.), it ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000507

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The DBMS must generate audit records when unsuccessful accesses to objects occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without tracking all or selected types of access to all or selected objects (tables, views, procedures, functions, etc.), it ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000508

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The DBMS must generate audit records for all direct access to the database(s).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In this context, direct access is any query, command, or call to the DBMS that comes from any source other than the applicati...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000514

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The DBMS must implement NIST FIPS 140-2 or 140-3 validated cryptographic modules to provision digital signatures.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to protect data. The applicatio...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000514

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The DBMS must disable accounts when the accounts have expired.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Disabling expired, inactive, or otherwise anomalous accounts supports the concepts of least privilege and least functionality...
    Rule Medium Severity

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