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Database Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-APP-000266

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  • The DBMS must provide non-privileged users with error messages that provide information necessary for corrective actions without revealing information that could be exploited by adversaries.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Any DBMS or associated application providing too much information in error messages on the screen or printout risks compromis...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000267

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  • The DBMS must reveal detailed error messages only to the ISSO, ISSM, SA and DBA.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the DBMS provides too much information in error logs and administrative messages to the screen, this could lead to comprom...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The DBMS 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-000296

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  • The DBMS must provide logout functionality to allow the user to manually terminate a session initiated by that user.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If a user cannot explicitly end a DBMS session, the session may remain open and be exploited by an attacker; this is referred...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000311

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  • The DBMS 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 the DBMS to make security-related access-con...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000313

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  • The DBMS 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 the DBMS to make security-related access-con...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000314

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  • The DBMS 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 the DBMS to make security-related access-con...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000328

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  • The DBMS 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

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  • The DBMS 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

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  • 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 needs to execute internal logic (stored procedures, function...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000357

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