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DB2 must generate audit records when privileges/permissions are retrieved.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Under some circumstances, it may be useful to monitor who/what is reading privilege/permission/role information. Therefore, it must be possible to configure auditing to do this. DBMSs typically make such information available through views or functions. This requirement addresses explicit requests for privilege/permission/role membership information. It does not refer to the implicit retrieval of privileges/permissions/role memberships that the DBMS continually performs to determine if any and every action on the database is permitted.

ID
SV-213676r879561_rule
Version
DB2X-00-000800
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Define the audit policy using the CREATE AUDIT POLICY SQL statement:
DB2> CREATE AUDIT POLICY CATALOGAUDIT CATEGORIES CONTEXT STATUS BOTH, EXECUTE STATUS BOTH ERROR TYPE AUDIT

To modify an existing audit policy, replace "CREATE" with "ALTER" in the preceding statement. Only the categories explicitly named in the statement will be affected.  In this case, the changes take effect immediately.

If CREATE was used above, apply the correct audit policy to either the database as a whole or to the specific catalog tables using one of these two statements: