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MongoDB Enterprise Advanced 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • MongoDB must enforce authorized access to all PKI private keys stored/used by MongoDB.

    The DOD standard for authentication is DOD-approved PKI certificates. PKI certificate-based authentication is performed by requiring the certificate holder to cryptographically prove possession of ...
    Rule High Severity
  • MongoDB must obscure feedback of authentication information during the authentication process to protect the information from possible exploitation/use by unauthorized individuals.

    The DOD standard for authentication is DOD-approved PKI certificates. Normally, with PKI authentication, the interaction with the user for authentication will be handled by a software component se...
    Rule High Severity
  • MongoDB must uniquely identify and authenticate nonorganizational users (or processes acting on behalf of nonorganizational users).

    Nonorganizational users include all information system users other than organizational users, which include organizational employees or individuals the organization deems to have equivalent status ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • MongoDB must prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources.

    The purpose of this control is to prevent information, including encrypted representations of information, produced by the actions of a prior user/role (or the actions of a process acting on behalf...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • MongoDB must reveal detailed error messages only to the information system security officer (ISSO), information system security manager (ISSM), system administrator (SA), and database administrator (DBA).

    If MongoDB provides too much information in error logs and administrative messages to the screen, this could lead to compromise. The structure and content of error messages must be carefully consid...
    Rule Medium Severity

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