I - Mission Critical Sensitive
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-APP-000141-DB-000092
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Unused database components which are integrated in the EDB Postgres Advanced Server and cannot be uninstalled must be disabled.
<VulnDiscussion>Information systems are capable of providing a wide variety of functions and services. Some of the functions and services, pr...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141-DB-000093
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Access to external executables must be disabled or restricted.
<VulnDiscussion>Information systems are capable of providing a wide variety of functions and services. Some of the functions and services, pr...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000142-DB-000094
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must be configured to prohibit or restrict the use of organization-defined functions, ports, protocols, and/or services, as defined in the PPSM CAL and vulnerability assessments.
<VulnDiscussion>In order to prevent unauthorized connection of devices, unauthorized transfer of information, or unauthorized tunneling (i.e....Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000148-DB-000103
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must uniquely identify and authenticate organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of organizational users).
<VulnDiscussion>To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated to pre...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000164-DB-000401
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
If DBMS authentication, using passwords, is employed, EDB Postgres Advanced Server must enforce the DoD standards for password complexity and lifetime.
<VulnDiscussion>OS/enterprise authentication and identification must be used (SRG-APP-000023-DB-000001). Native DBMS authentication may be us...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000171-DB-000074
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
If passwords are used for authentication, the EDB Postgres Advanced Server must store only hashed, salted representations of passwords.
<VulnDiscussion>The DoD standard for authentication is DoD-approved PKI certificates. Authentication based on User ID and Password may be us...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000172-DB-000075
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
If passwords are used for authentication, the EDB Postgres Advanced Server must transmit only encrypted representations of passwords.
<VulnDiscussion>The DoD standard for authentication is DoD-approved PKI certificates. Authentication based on User ID and Password may be us...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000175-DB-000067
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The EDB Postgres Advanced Server, 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-000176-DB-000068
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must enforce authorized access to all PKI private keys stored/utilized by the EDB Postgres Advanced Server.
<VulnDiscussion>The DoD standard for authentication is DoD-approved PKI certificates. PKI certificate-based authentication is performed by re...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000178-DB-000083
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Applications must obscure feedback of authentication information during the authentication process to protect the information from possible exploitation/use by unauthorized individuals.
<VulnDiscussion>The DoD standard for authentication is DoD-approved PKI certificates. Normally, with PKI authentication, the interaction wit...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000178-DB-000083
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
When using command-line tools such as psql, users must use a logon method that does not expose the password.
<VulnDiscussion>To prevent the compromise of authentication information, such as passwords and PINs, during the authentication process, the f...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-DB-000363
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The EDB Postgres Advanced Server password file must not be used.
<VulnDiscussion>The EDB Postgres password file can contain passwords to be used if the connection allows a password (and no password has been...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000179-DB-000114
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must use NIST FIPS 140-2 or 140-3 validated cryptographic modules for all cryptographic operations including generation of cryptographic hashes and data protection.
<VulnDiscussion>Use of weak or not validated cryptographic algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption and digital signatures ...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000180-DB-000115
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DBMS must uniquely identify and authenticate non-organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of non-organizational users).
<VulnDiscussion>Non-organizational users include all information system users other than organizational users, which include organizational e...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000211-DB-000122
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The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must separate user functionality (including user interface services) from database management functionality.
<VulnDiscussion>Information system management functionality includes functions necessary to administer databases, network components, worksta...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000226-DB-000147
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
In the event of a system failure, the DBMS must preserve any information necessary to determine cause of failure and any information necessary to return to operations with least disruption to mission processes.
<VulnDiscussion>Failure to a known state can address safety or security in accordance with the mission/business needs of the organization. F...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000231-DB-000154
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must protect the confidentiality and integrity of all information at rest.
<VulnDiscussion>This control is intended to address the confidentiality and integrity of information at rest in non-mobile devices and covers...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000233-DB-000124
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must isolate security functions from non-security functions.
<VulnDiscussion>An isolation boundary provides access control and protects the integrity of the hardware, software, and firmware that perform...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000243-DB-000128
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Database contents must be protected from unauthorized and unintended information transfer by enforcement of a data-transfer policy.
<VulnDiscussion>Applications, including DBMSs, must prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources. Da...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000243-DB-000374
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Access to database files must be limited to relevant processes and to authorized, administrative users.
<VulnDiscussion>Applications, including DBMSs, must prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources. Per...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000251-DB-000160
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must check the validity of all data inputs except those specifically identified by the organization.
<VulnDiscussion>Invalid user input occurs when a user inserts data or characters into an application's data entry fields and the application ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000251-DB-000391
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The EDB Postgres Advanced Server and associated applications must reserve the use of dynamic code execution for situations that require it.
<VulnDiscussion>With respect to database management systems, one class of threat is known as SQL Injection, or more generally, code injection...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000251-DB-000392
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The EDB Postgres Advanced Server and associated applications, when making use of dynamic code execution, must scan input data for invalid values that may indicate a code injection attack.
<VulnDiscussion>With respect to database management systems, one class of threat is known as SQL Injection, or more generally, code injection...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000266-DB-000162
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must provide non-privileged users with error messages that provide information necessary for corrective actions without revealing information that could be exploited by adversaries.
<VulnDiscussion>Any DBMS or associated application providing too much information in error messages on the screen or printout risks compromis...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000267-DB-000163
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must reveal detailed error messages only to the ISSO, ISSM, SA, and DBA.
<VulnDiscussion>If EDB Postgres Advanced Server provides too much information in error logs and administrative messages to the screen, this c...Rule Medium Severity
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