I - Mission Critical Sensitive
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-APP-000499-DB-000331
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
PostgreSQL must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to delete privileges/permissions occur.
<VulnDiscussion>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.
<VulnDiscussion>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.
<VulnDiscussion>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.
<VulnDiscussion>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.
<VulnDiscussion>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.
<VulnDiscussion>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.
<VulnDiscussion>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.
<VulnDiscussion>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.
<VulnDiscussion>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.
<VulnDiscussion>The removal of security objects from the database/PostgreSQL would seriously degrade a system's information assurance posture...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000495-DB-000328
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
PostgreSQL must generate audit records when privileges/permissions are modified.
<VulnDiscussion>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-000504-DB-000355
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
PostgreSQL must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to execute privileged activities or other system-level access occur.
<VulnDiscussion>Without tracking privileged activity, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to a...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000496-DB-000334
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
PostgreSQL must generate audit records when security objects are modified.
<VulnDiscussion>Changes in the database objects (tables, views, procedures, functions) that record and control permissions, privileges, and r...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000498-DB-000346
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
PostgreSQL must generate audit records when categories of information (e.g., classification levels/security levels) is modified.
<VulnDiscussion>Changes in categories of information must be tracked. Without an audit trail, unauthorized access to protected data could go ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000495-DB-000329
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
PostgreSQL must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to modify privileges/permissions occur.
<VulnDiscussion>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-000495-DB-000327
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
PostgreSQL must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to add privileges/permissions occur.
<VulnDiscussion>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-000175-DB-000067
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
PostgreSQL, when utilizing PKI-based authentication, must validate certificates by performing RFC 5280-compliant certification path validation.
<VulnDiscussion>The DoD standard for authentication is DoD-approved PKI certificates. A certificate's certification path is the path from th...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000097-DB-000041
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
PostgreSQL must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish where the events occurred.
<VulnDiscussion>Information system auditing capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Without establishing where events occurred...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000441-DB-000378
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
PostgreSQL must maintain the confidentiality and integrity of information during preparation for transmission.
<VulnDiscussion>Information can be either unintentionally or maliciously disclosed or modified during preparation for transmission, including...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000089-DB-000064
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
PostgreSQL must be configured to provide audit record generation for DoD-defined auditable events within all DBMS/database components.
<VulnDiscussion>Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events r...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000375-DB-000323
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
PostgreSQL must generate time stamps, for audit records and application data, with a minimum granularity of one second.
<VulnDiscussion>Without sufficient granularity of time stamps, it is not possible to adequately determine the chronological order of records....Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000100-DB-000201
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
PostgreSQL must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish the identity of any user/subject or process associated with the event.
<VulnDiscussion>Information system auditing capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Without information that establishes the i...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000514-DB-000382
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
PostgreSQL must implement NIST FIPS 140-2 or 140-3 validated cryptographic modules to generate and validate cryptographic hashes.
<VulnDiscussion>Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to protect data. The applicatio...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000416-DB-000380
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
PostgreSQL must use NSA-approved cryptography to protect classified information in accordance with the data owner’s requirements.
<VulnDiscussion>Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to protect data. The applicatio...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000514-DB-000383
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
PostgreSQL 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 data owner’s requirements.
<VulnDiscussion>Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to protect data. The applicatio...Rule High Severity
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