The DBMS must support organizational requirements to disable user accounts after an organization defined time period of inactivity.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-32459	SRG-APP-000163-DB-000113	SV-42796r1_rule		Medium

Description
Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. To meet password policy requirements, passwords need to be changed at specific policy based intervals. If the information system or application allows the user to consecutively reuse their password when that password has exceeded its defined lifetime, the end result is a password that is not changed as per policy requirements. Unused or expired DBMS accounts provide a means for undetected, unauthorized access to the database.

Description

Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. To meet password policy requirements, passwords need to be changed at specific policy based intervals. If the information system or application allows the user to consecutively reuse their password when that password has exceeded its defined lifetime, the end result is a password that is not changed as per policy requirements. Unused or expired DBMS accounts provide a means for undetected, unauthorized access to the database.

STIG	Date
Database Security Requirements Guide	2012-07-02

Details

Check Text ( C-40896r2_chk )
Verify accounts that have been inactive or expired for longer than the organization defined time period have been disabled. If inactive or expired accounts are not disabled, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-36373r3_fix)
Disable accounts that have been inactive or expired longer than the organization defined time period.