II - Mission Support Public
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.
Information systems are capable of providing a wide variety of functions and services. Some of the functions and services, provided by default, may not be necessary to support essential organizatio...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141-DB-000093
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Access to external executables must be disabled or restricted.
Information systems are capable of providing a wide variety of functions and services. Some of the functions and services, provided by default, may not be necessary to support essential organizatio...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000142-DB-000094
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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.
In order to prevent unauthorized connection of devices, unauthorized transfer of information, or unauthorized tunneling (i.e., embedding of data types within data types), organizations must disable...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000148-DB-000103
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The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must uniquely identify and authenticate organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of organizational users).
To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated to prevent potential misuse and compromise of the system. Organizational user...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000164-DB-000401
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If DBMS authentication, using passwords, is employed, EDB Postgres Advanced Server must enforce the DoD standards for password complexity and lifetime.
OS/enterprise authentication and identification must be used (SRG-APP-000023-DB-000001). Native DBMS authentication may be used only when circumstances make it unavoidable; and must be documented a...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000171-DB-000074
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If passwords are used for authentication, the EDB Postgres Advanced Server must store only hashed, salted representations of passwords.
The DoD standard for authentication is DoD-approved PKI certificates. Authentication based on User ID and Password may be used only when it is not possible to employ a PKI certificate, and require...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000172-DB-000075
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If passwords are used for authentication, the EDB Postgres Advanced Server must transmit only encrypted representations of passwords.
The DoD standard for authentication is DoD-approved PKI certificates. Authentication based on User ID and Password may be used only when it is not possible to employ a PKI certificate, and require...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000175-DB-000067
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The EDB Postgres Advanced Server, when utilizing PKI-based authentication, must validate certificates by performing RFC 5280-compliant certification path validation.
The DoD standard for authentication is DoD-approved PKI certificates. A certificate’s certification path is the path from the end entity certificate to a trusted root certification authority (CA)....Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000176-DB-000068
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The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must enforce authorized access to all PKI private keys stored/utilized by the EDB Postgres Advanced Server.
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 -
SRG-APP-000178-DB-000083
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Applications 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 -
SRG-APP-000178-DB-000083
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When using command-line tools such as psql, users must use a logon method that does not expose the password.
To prevent the compromise of authentication information, such as passwords and PINs, during the authentication process, the feedback from the information system must not provide any information tha...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-DB-000363
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The EDB Postgres Advanced Server password file must not be used.
The EDB Postgres password file can contain passwords to be used if the connection allows a password (and no password has been specified otherwise). This file contain lines of the following format...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000179-DB-000114
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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.
Use of weak or not validated cryptographic algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption and digital signatures to protect data. Weak algorithms can be easily broken and not validated ...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000180-DB-000115
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The DBMS must uniquely identify and authenticate non-organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of non-organizational users).
Non-organizational 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 -
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.
Information system management functionality includes functions necessary to administer databases, network components, workstations, or servers and typically requires privileged user access. The s...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000226-DB-000147
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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.
Failure to a known state can address safety or security in accordance with the mission/business needs of the organization. Failure to a known secure state helps prevent a loss of confidentiality, ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000231-DB-000154
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The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must protect the confidentiality and integrity of all information at rest.
This control is intended to address the confidentiality and integrity of information at rest in non-mobile devices and covers user information and system information. Information at rest refers to ...Rule High Severity -
SRG-APP-000233-DB-000124
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The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must isolate security functions from non-security functions.
An isolation boundary provides access control and protects the integrity of the hardware, software, and firmware that perform security functions. Security functions are the hardware, software, and...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000243-DB-000128
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Database contents must be protected from unauthorized and unintended information transfer by enforcement of a data-transfer policy.
Applications, including DBMSs, must prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources. Data used for the development and testing of applications often involves c...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000243-DB-000374
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Access to database files must be limited to relevant processes and to authorized, administrative users.
Applications, including DBMSs, must prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources. Permitting only DBMS processes and authorized, administrative users to have...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000251-DB-000160
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The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must check the validity of all data inputs except those specifically identified by the organization.
Invalid user input occurs when a user inserts data or characters into an application's data entry fields and the application is unprepared to process that data. This results in unanticipated applic...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000251-DB-000391
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The EDB Postgres Advanced Server and associated applications must reserve the use of dynamic code execution for situations that require it.
With respect to database management systems, one class of threat is known as SQL Injection, or more generally, code injection. It takes advantage of the dynamic execution capabilities of various pr...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000251-DB-000392
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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.
With respect to database management systems, one class of threat is known as SQL Injection, or more generally, code injection. It takes advantage of the dynamic execution capabilities of various pr...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000266-DB-000162
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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.
Any DBMS or associated application providing too much information in error messages on the screen or printout risks compromising the data and security of the system. The structure and content of er...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000267-DB-000163
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The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must reveal detailed error messages only to the ISSO, ISSM, SA, and DBA.
If EDB Postgres Advanced Server 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 nee...Rule Medium Severity
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