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Database Security Requirements Guide


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Date Finding Count (125)
2022-06-13 CAT I (High): 12 CAT II (Med): 113 CAT III (Low): 0
STIG Description
This Security Requirements Guide is published as a tool to improve the security of Department of Defense (DoD) information systems. The requirements are derived from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53 and related documents. Comments or proposed revisions to this document should be sent via email to the following address: disa.stig_spt@mail.mil.

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Findings (MAC II - Mission Support Sensitive)

Finding ID Severity Title
V-251182 High DBMS products must be a version supported by the vendor.
V-206561 High The DBMS must obscure feedback of authentication information during the authentication process to protect the information from possible exploitation/use by unauthorized individuals.
V-206562 High The DBMS must use NIST FIPS 140-2 or 140-3 validated cryptographic modules for cryptographic operations.
V-206570 High The DBMS must protect the confidentiality and integrity of all information at rest.
V-206545 High The DBMS software installation account must be restricted to authorized users.
V-206559 High The DBMS must enforce authorized access to all PKI private keys stored/utilized by the DBMS.
V-206555 High If DBMS authentication, using passwords, is employed, the DBMS must enforce the DoD standards for password complexity and lifetime.
V-206557 High If passwords are used for authentication, the DBMS must transmit only encrypted representations of passwords.
V-206556 High If passwords are used for authentication, the DBMS must store only hashed, salted representations of passwords.
V-206520 High The DBMS must integrate with an organization-level authentication/access mechanism providing account management and automation for all users, groups, roles, and any other principals.
V-206521 High The DBMS must enforce approved authorizations for logical access to information and system resources in accordance with applicable access control policies.
V-233495 High The DBMS must use NSA-approved cryptography to protect classified information in accordance with the data owner's requirements.
V-206629 Medium The DBMS must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to delete categories of information (e.g., classification levels/security levels) occur.
V-206628 Medium The DBMS must generate audit records when categories of information (e.g., classification levels/security levels) are deleted.
V-206627 Medium The DBMS must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to delete security objects occur.
V-206626 Medium The DBMS must generate audit records when security objects are deleted.
V-206625 Medium The DBMS must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to delete privileges/permissions occur.
V-206624 Medium The DBMS must generate audit records when privileges/permissions are deleted.
V-206623 Medium The DBMS must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to modify categories of information (e.g., classification levels/security levels) occur.
V-206622 Medium The DBMS must generate audit records when categories of information (e.g., classification levels/security levels) are modified.
V-206621 Medium The DBMS must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to modify security objects occur.
V-206620 Medium The DBMS must generate audit records when security objects are modified.
V-206519 Medium The DBMS must limit the number of concurrent sessions to an organization-defined number per user for all accounts and/or account types.
V-206612 Medium The DBMS must be able to generate audit records when security objects are accessed.
V-206613 Medium The DBMS must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to access security objects occur.
V-206610 Medium When updates are applied to the DBMS software, any software components that have been replaced or made unnecessary must be removed.
V-206611 Medium Security-relevant software updates to the DBMS must be installed within the time period directed by an authoritative source (e.g. IAVM, CTOs, DTMs, and STIGs).
V-206616 Medium The DBMS must generate audit records when privileges/permissions are added.
V-206617 Medium The DBMS must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to add privileges/permissions occur.
V-206614 Medium The DBMS must generate audit records when categories of information (e.g., classification levels/security levels) are accessed.
V-206615 Medium The DBMS must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to access categories of information (e.g., classification levels/security levels) occur.
V-206618 Medium The DBMS must generate audit records when privileges/permissions are modified.
V-206619 Medium The DBMS must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to modify privileges/permissions occur.
V-206564 Medium The DBMS must separate user functionality (including user interface services) from database management functionality.
V-206565 Medium The DBMS must invalidate session identifiers upon user logout or other session termination.
V-206566 Medium The DBMS must recognize only system-generated session identifiers.
V-206567 Medium The DBMS must maintain the authenticity of communications sessions by guarding against man-in-the-middle attacks that guess at Session ID values.
V-206560 Medium The DBMS must map the PKI-authenticated identity to an associated user account.
V-206563 Medium The DBMS must uniquely identify and authenticate non-organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of non-organizational users).
V-206568 Medium The DBMS must fail to a secure state if system initialization fails, shutdown fails, or aborts fail.
V-206569 Medium 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.
V-206599 Medium The DBMS must disable network functions, ports, protocols, and services deemed by the organization to be nonsecure, in accord with the Ports, Protocols, and Services Management (PPSM) guidance.
V-206598 Medium The DBMS must produce audit records of its enforcement of access restrictions associated with changes to the configuration of the DBMS or database(s).
V-206591 Medium The DBMS must allocate audit record storage capacity in accordance with organization-defined audit record storage requirements.
V-206590 Medium The DBMS must provide centralized configuration of the content to be captured in audit records generated by all components of the DBMS.
V-206593 Medium The DBMS must provide an immediate real-time alert to appropriate support staff of all audit log failures.
V-206592 Medium The DBMS must provide a warning to appropriate support staff when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75% of maximum audit record storage capacity.
V-206595 Medium The DBMS must generate time stamps, for audit records and application data, with a minimum granularity of one second.
V-206594 Medium The DBMS must record time stamps, in audit records and application data, that can be mapped to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC, formerly GMT).
V-206597 Medium The DBMS must enforce access restrictions associated with changes to the configuration of the DBMS or database(s).
V-206596 Medium The DBMS must prohibit user installation of logic modules (stored procedures, functions, triggers, views, etc.) without explicit privileged status.
V-206605 Medium The DBMS must implement cryptographic mechanisms preventing the unauthorized disclosure of organization-defined information at rest on organization-defined information system components.
V-206604 Medium The DBMS must implement cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized modification of organization-defined information at rest (to include, at a minimum, PII and classified information) on organization-defined information system components.
V-206607 Medium The DBMS must maintain the confidentiality and integrity of information during preparation for transmission.
V-206606 Medium The DBMS must maintain a separate execution domain for each executing process.
V-206601 Medium The DBMS must prohibit the use of cached authenticators after an organization-defined time period.
V-206600 Medium The DBMS must require users to re-authenticate when organization-defined circumstances or situations require re-authentication.
V-206603 Medium The DBMS must only accept end entity certificates issued by DoD PKI or DoD-approved PKI Certification Authorities (CAs) for the establishment of all encrypted sessions.
V-206609 Medium When invalid inputs are received, the DBMS must behave in a predictable and documented manner that reflects organizational and system objectives.
V-206608 Medium The DBMS must maintain the confidentiality and integrity of information during reception.
V-206577 Medium 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.
V-206576 Medium The DBMS and associated applications must reserve the use of dynamic code execution for situations that require it.
V-206575 Medium The DBMS must check the validity of all data inputs except those specifically identified by the organization.
V-206574 Medium Access to database files must be limited to relevant processes and to authorized, administrative users.
V-206573 Medium The DBMS must prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources.
V-206572 Medium Database contents must be protected from unauthorized and unintended information transfer by enforcement of a data-transfer policy.
V-206571 Medium The DBMS must isolate security functions from non-security functions.
V-206582 Medium The DBMS must associate organization-defined types of security labels having organization-defined security label values with information in storage.
V-206579 Medium The DBMS must reveal detailed error messages only to the ISSO, ISSM, SA and DBA.
V-206578 Medium 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.
V-206548 Medium The role(s)/group(s) used to modify database structure (including but not necessarily limited to tables, indexes, storage, etc.) and logic modules (stored procedures, functions, triggers, links to software external to the DBMS, etc.) must be restricted to authorized users.
V-206549 Medium Default demonstration and sample databases, database objects, and applications must be removed.
V-206542 Medium The DBMS must protect its audit configuration from unauthorized modification.
V-206543 Medium The DBMS must protect its audit features from unauthorized removal.
V-206540 Medium The audit information produced by the DBMS must be protected from unauthorized deletion.
V-206541 Medium The DBMS must protect its audit features from unauthorized access.
V-206546 Medium Database software, including DBMS configuration files, must be stored in dedicated directories, or DASD pools, separate from the host OS and other applications.
V-206547 Medium Database objects (including but not limited to tables, indexes, storage, stored procedures, functions, triggers, links to software external to the DBMS, etc.) must be owned by database/DBMS principals authorized for ownership.
V-206544 Medium The DBMS must limit privileges to change software modules, to include stored procedures, functions and triggers, and links to software external to the DBMS.
V-206589 Medium The DBMS must utilize centralized management of the content captured in audit records generated by all components of the DBMS.
V-206583 Medium The DBMS must associate organization-defined types of security labels having organization-defined security label values with information in process.
V-206558 Medium The DBMS, when utilizing PKI-based authentication, must validate certificates by performing RFC 5280-compliant certification path validation.
V-206554 Medium The DBMS must uniquely identify and authenticate organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of organizational users).
V-206551 Medium Unused database components that are integrated in the DBMS and cannot be uninstalled must be disabled.
V-206550 Medium Unused database components, DBMS software, and database objects must be removed.
V-206553 Medium The DBMS 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.
V-206552 Medium Access to external executables must be disabled or restricted.
V-206528 Medium The DBMS must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish what type of events occurred.
V-206529 Medium The DBMS must produce audit records containing time stamps to establish when the events occurred.
V-206522 Medium The DBMS must protect against a user falsely repudiating having performed organization-defined actions.
V-206523 Medium The DBMS must provide audit record generation capability for DoD-defined auditable events within all DBMS/database components.
V-206524 Medium The DBMS must allow only the ISSM (or individuals or roles appointed by the ISSM) to select which auditable events are to be audited.
V-206525 Medium The DBMS must be able to generate audit records when privileges/permissions are retrieved.
V-206526 Medium The DBMS must be able to generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to retrieve privileges/permissions occur.
V-206527 Medium The DBMS must initiate session auditing upon startup.
V-206641 Medium The DBMS must implement NIST FIPS 140-2 or 140-3 validated cryptographic modules to protect unclassified information requiring confidentiality and cryptographic protection, in accordance with the data owners requirements.
V-206640 Medium The DBMS must implement NIST FIPS 140-2 or 140-3 validated cryptographic modules to generate and validate cryptographic hashes.
V-206643 Medium The DBMS must be configured in accordance with the security configuration settings based on DoD security configuration and implementation guidance, including STIGs, NSA configuration guides, CTOs, DTMs, and IAVMs.
V-206642 Medium The DBMS must off-load audit data to a separate log management facility; this shall be continuous and in near real time for systems with a network connection to the storage facility and weekly or more often for stand-alone systems.
V-206539 Medium The audit information produced by the DBMS must be protected from unauthorized modification.
V-206538 Medium The audit information produced by the DBMS must be protected from unauthorized read access.
V-206533 Medium The DBMS must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish the identity of any user/subject or process associated with the event.
V-206532 Medium The DBMS must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish the outcome (success or failure) of the events.
V-206531 Medium The DBMS must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish the sources (origins) of the events.
V-206530 Medium The DBMS must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish where the events occurred.
V-206537 Medium The DBMS must use system clocks to generate time stamps for use in audit records and application data.
V-206536 Medium The DBMS must be configurable to overwrite audit log records, oldest first (First-In-First-Out - FIFO), in the event of unavailability of space for more audit log records.
V-206535 Medium The DBMS must by default shut down upon audit failure, to include the unavailability of space for more audit log records; or must be configurable to shut down upon audit failure.
V-206534 Medium The DBMS must include additional, more detailed, organization-defined information in the audit records for audit events identified by type, location, or subject.
V-206586 Medium The DBMS must prevent non-privileged users from executing privileged functions, to include disabling, circumventing, or altering implemented security safeguards/countermeasures.
V-206587 Medium Execution of software modules (to include stored procedures, functions, and triggers) with elevated privileges must be restricted to necessary cases only.
V-206584 Medium The DBMS must associate organization-defined types of security labels having organization-defined security label values with information in transmission.
V-206585 Medium The DBMS must enforce discretionary access control policies, as defined by the data owner, over defined subjects and objects.
V-206638 Medium The DBMS must generate audit records for all direct access to the database(s).
V-206639 Medium The DBMS must implement NIST FIPS 140-2 or 140-3 validated cryptographic modules to provision digital signatures.
V-206580 Medium The DBMS must automatically terminate a user session after organization-defined conditions or trigger events requiring session disconnect.
V-206581 Medium The DBMS must provide logout functionality to allow the user to manually terminate a session initiated by that user.
V-206634 Medium The DBMS must generate audit records showing starting and ending time for user access to the database(s).
V-206635 Medium The DBMS must generate audit records when concurrent logons/connections by the same user from different workstations occur.
V-206636 Medium The DBMS must be able to generate audit records when successful accesses to objects occur.
V-206637 Medium The DBMS must generate audit records when unsuccessful accesses to objects occur.
V-206630 Medium The DBMS must generate audit records when successful logons or connections occur.
V-206631 Medium The DBMS must generate audit records when unsuccessful logons or connection attempts occur.
V-206632 Medium The DBMS must generate audit records for all privileged activities or other system-level access.
V-206633 Medium The DBMS must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to execute privileged activities or other system-level access occur.