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EnterpriseDB Postgres Advanced Server (EPAS) Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must generate audit records when privileges/permissions are deleted.

    <VulnDiscussion>Changes in the permissions, privileges, and roles granted to users and roles must be tracked. Without an audit trail, unautho...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • SRG-APP-000499-DB-000331

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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to delete 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...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • SRG-APP-000501-DB-000336

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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must generate audit records when security objects are deleted.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The removal of security objects from the database/DBMS would seriously degrade a system's information assurance posture. If s...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • SRG-APP-000501-DB-000337

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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to delete security objects occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The removal of security objects from the database/DBMS would seriously degrade a system's information assurance posture. If s...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • SRG-APP-000502-DB-000348

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  • Audit records must be generated when unsuccessful attempts to delete categorized information (e.g., classification levels/security levels) occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Changes in categorized information must be tracked. Without an audit trail, unauthorized access to protected data could go un...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • SRG-APP-000503-DB-000350

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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server 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
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  • SRG-APP-000503-DB-000351

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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server 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
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  • SRG-APP-000504-DB-000354

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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server 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
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  • SRG-APP-000504-DB-000355

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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server 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
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  • SRG-APP-000505-DB-000352

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must generate audit records showing starting and ending time for user access to the database(s).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;For completeness of forensic analysis, it is necessary to know how long a user's (or other principal's) connection to the DBM...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server 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
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  • SRG-APP-000507-DB-000356

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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server 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
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  • SRG-APP-000507-DB-000357

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server 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
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  • SRG-APP-000508-DB-000358

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server 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
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  • SRG-APP-000514-DB-000381

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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server 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
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  • SRG-APP-000514-DB-000382

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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must implement NIST FIPS 140-2 or 140-3 validated cryptographic modules to generate and validate cryptographic hashes.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to protect data. The applicatio...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • SRG-APP-000514-DB-000383

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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must implement NIST FIPS 140-2 or 140-3 validated cryptographic modules to protect unclassified information requiring confidentiality and cryptographic protection, in accordance with the requirements of the data owner.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to protect data. The applicatio...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • SRG-APP-000515-DB-000318

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  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must off-load audit data to a separate log management facility; this must be continuous and in near real time for systems with a network connection to the storage facility and weekly or more often for stand-alone systems.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration. Off-loading is a common...
    Rule Medium Severity
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  • SRG-APP-000456-DB-000400

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  • EDB Postgres Advanced Server products must be a version supported by the vendor.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Unsupported commercial and database systems should not be used because fixes to newly identified bugs will not be implemented...
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