Access to database files must be limited to relevant processes and to authorized, administrative users.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-206574	SRG-APP-000243-DB-000374	SV-206574r617447_rule		Medium

Description
Applications, including DBMSs, must prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources. Permitting only DBMS processes and authorized, administrative users to have access to the files where the database resides helps ensure that those files are not shared inappropriately and are not open to backdoor access and manipulation.

STIG	Date
Database Security Requirements Guide	2020-12-16

Details

Check Text ( C-6834r291390_chk )
Review the permissions granted to users by the operating system/file system on the database files, database log files and database backup files. If any user/role who is not an authorized system administrator with a need to know or database administrator with a need to know, or a system account for running DBMS processes, is permitted to read/view any of these files, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-6834r291391_fix)
Configure the permissions granted by the operating system/file system on the database files, database log files, and database backup files so that only relevant system accounts and authorized system administrators and database administrators with a need to know are permitted to read/view these files.