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III - Administrative Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-APP-000313-DB-000309

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    Group
  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must associate organization-defined types of security labels having organization-defined security label values with information in process.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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-DB-000310

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    Group
  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must associate organization-defined types of security labels having organization-defined security label values with information in transmission.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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-DB-000301

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    Group
  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must enforce discretionary access control policies, as defined by the data owner, over defined subjects and objects.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the notion that individual users are "owners" of objects, and therefore have d...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000340-DB-000304

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    Group
  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must prevent nonprivileged users from executing privileged functions to include disabling, circumventing, or altering implemented security safeguards/countermeasures.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Preventing nonprivileged users from executing privileged functions mitigates the risk that unauthorized individuals or proces...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000342-DB-000302

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    Group
  • Execution of software modules (to include stored procedures, functions, and triggers) with elevated privileges must be restricted to necessary cases only.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In certain situations, to provide required functionality, a DBMS needs to execute internal logic (stored procedures, function...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000342-DB-000302

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    Group
  • Execution of software modules (to include stored procedures, functions, and triggers) with elevated privileges must be restricted to necessary cases only.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In certain situations, to provide required functionality, a DBMS needs to execute internal logic (stored procedures, function...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000357-DB-000316

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    Group
  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must allocate audit record storage capacity in accordance with organization-defined audit record storage requirements.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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-DB-000319

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    Group
  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must provide a warning to appropriate support staff when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75 percent of maximum audit record storage capacity.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Organizations are required to use a central log management system, so under normal conditions, the audit space allocated to t...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000360-DB-000320

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    Group
  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must provide an immediate real-time alert to appropriate support staff of all audit log failures.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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-DB-000322

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    Group
  • The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must record time stamps in audit records and application data that can be mapped to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC, formerly GMT).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If time stamps are not consistently applied and there is no common time reference, it is difficult to perform forensic analys...
    Rule Medium Severity

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