I - Mission Critical Classified
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-APP-000231
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DBMS 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
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DBMS 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
<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. D...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000243
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DBMS must prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources.
<VulnDiscussion>The purpose of this control is to prevent information, including encrypted representations of information, produced by the ac...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000243
<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
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DBMS 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
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DBMS 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
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DBMS 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
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DBMS 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
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DBMS must reveal detailed error messages only to the ISSO, ISSM, SA and DBA.
<VulnDiscussion>If the DBMS provides too much information in error logs and administrative messages to the screen, this could lead to comprom...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000295
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DBMS must automatically terminate a user session after organization-defined conditions or trigger events requiring session disconnect.
<VulnDiscussion>This addresses the termination of user-initiated logical sessions in contrast to the termination of network connections that ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000296
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DBMS must provide logout functionality to allow the user to manually terminate a session initiated by that user.
<VulnDiscussion>If a user cannot explicitly end a DBMS session, the session may remain open and be exploited by an attacker; this is referred...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000311
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DBMS must associate organization-defined types of security labels having organization-defined security label values with information in storage.
<VulnDiscussion>Without the association of security labels to information, there is no basis for the DBMS to make security-related access-con...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000313
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DBMS must associate organization-defined types of security labels having organization-defined security label values with information in process.
<VulnDiscussion>Without the association of security labels to information, there is no basis for the DBMS to make security-related access-con...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000314
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DBMS must associate organization-defined types of security labels having organization-defined security label values with information in transmission.
<VulnDiscussion>Without the association of security labels to information, there is no basis for the DBMS to make security-related access-con...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000328
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DBMS must enforce discretionary access control policies, as defined by the data owner, over defined subjects and objects.
<VulnDiscussion>Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the notion that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have di...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000340
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DBMS must prevent non-privileged users from executing privileged functions, to include disabling, circumventing, or altering implemented security safeguards/countermeasures.
<VulnDiscussion>Preventing non-privileged users from executing privileged functions mitigates the risk that unauthorized individuals or proce...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000342
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Execution of software modules (to include stored procedures, functions, and triggers) with elevated privileges must be restricted to necessary cases only.
<VulnDiscussion>In certain situations, to provide required functionality, a DBMS needs to execute internal logic (stored procedures, function...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000357
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DBMS must allocate audit record storage capacity in accordance with organization-defined audit record storage requirements.
<VulnDiscussion>In order to ensure sufficient storage capacity for the audit logs, the DBMS must be able to allocate audit record storage cap...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000359
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DBMS must provide a warning to appropriate support staff when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75% of maximum audit record storage capacity.
<VulnDiscussion>Organizations are required to use a central log management system, so, under normal conditions, the audit space allocated to ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000360
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DBMS must provide an immediate real-time alert to appropriate support staff of all audit log failures.
<VulnDiscussion>It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required....Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000374
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DBMS must record time stamps, in audit records and application data, that can be mapped to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC, formerly GMT).
<VulnDiscussion>If time stamps are not consistently applied and there is no common time reference, it is difficult to perform forensic analys...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000375
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DBMS 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-000378
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DBMS must prohibit user installation of logic modules (stored procedures, functions, triggers, views, etc.) without explicit privileged status.
<VulnDiscussion>Allowing regular users to install software, without explicit privileges, creates the risk that untested or potentially malici...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000380
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The DBMS must enforce access restrictions associated with changes to the configuration of the DBMS or database(s).
<VulnDiscussion>Failure to provide logical access restrictions associated with changes to configuration may have significant effects on the o...Rule Medium Severity
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