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I - Mission Critical Classified

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-APP-000499-DB-000331

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • PostgreSQL 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
  • SRG-APP-000091-DB-000066

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • PostgreSQL must be able to generate audit records when privileges/permissions are retrieved.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Under some circumstances, it may be useful to monitor who/what is reading privilege/permission/role information. Therefore, i...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000498-DB-000347

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • PostgreSQL must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to modify 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
  • SRG-APP-000507-DB-000357

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • PostgreSQL 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-000504-DB-000354

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • PostgreSQL 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-000494-DB-000345

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • PostgreSQL must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to access categorized information (e.g., classification levels/security levels) occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Changes in categories of information must be tracked. Without an audit trail, unauthorized access to protected data could go ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000492-DB-000332

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • PostgreSQL must be able to generate audit records when security objects are accessed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Changes to the security configuration must be tracked. This requirement applies to situations where security data is retriev...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000499-DB-000330

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • PostgreSQL must generate audit records when privileges/permissions are deleted.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Changes in the permissions, privileges, and roles granted to users and roles must be tracked. Without an audit trail, unautho...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000506-DB-000353

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • PostgreSQL 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 PostgreSQL. Concurrent connections by the sam...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000501-DB-000337

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • PostgreSQL must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to delete security objects occur.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The removal of security objects from the database/PostgreSQL would seriously degrade a system's information assurance posture...
    Rule Medium Severity

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