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EDB Postgres Advanced Server Security Technical Implementation Guide


Overview

Date Finding Count (109)
2017-11-17 CAT I (High): 9 CAT II (Med): 100 CAT III (Low): 0
STIG Description
This Security Technical Implementation 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-69079 High The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must implement NIST FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic modules to generate and validate cryptographic hashes.
V-69077 High The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must implement NIST FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic modules to provision digital signatures.
V-68911 High The EDB Postgres Advanced Server 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-69085 High The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must be configured on a platform that has a NIST certified FIPS 140-2 installation of OpenSSL.
V-69081 High The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must implement NIST FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic modules to protect unclassified information requiring confidentiality and cryptographic protection, in accordance with the requirements of the data owner.
V-68959 High The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must use NIST FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic modules for cryptographic operations.
V-68957 High When using command-line tools such as psql, users must use a logon method that does not expose the password.
V-68955 High Applications must obscure feedback of authentication information during the authentication process to protect the information from possible exploitation/use by unauthorized individuals.
V-68953 High The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must enforce authorized access to all PKI private keys stored/utilized by the EDB Postgres Advanced Server.
V-68885 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must allow only the ISSM (or individuals or roles appointed by the ISSM) to select which auditable events are to be audited.
V-68929 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server software installation account must be restricted to authorized users.
V-68887 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must generate audit records when privileges/permissions are retrieved.
V-68881 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must protect against a user falsely repudiating having performed organization-defined actions.
V-68883 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must provide audit record generation capability for DoD-defined auditable events within all EDB Postgres Advanced Server/database components.
V-68923 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must protect its audit features from unauthorized removal.
V-68921 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must protect its audit configuration from unauthorized modification.
V-68927 Medium EDB Postgres Advanced Server software modules, to include stored procedures, functions and triggers must be monitored to discover unauthorized changes.
V-68889 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to retrieve privileges/permissions occur.
V-68925 Medium Software, applications, and configuration files that are part of, or related to, the Postgres Plus Advanced Server installation must be monitored to discover unauthorized changes.
V-69037 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to add privileges/permissions occur.
V-69035 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must generate audit records when privileges/permissions are added.
V-69033 Medium Audit records must be generated when unsuccessful attempts to access categorized information (e.g., classification levels/security levels) occur.
V-69031 Medium The DBMS must generate audit records when categories of information (e.g., classification levels/security levels) are accessed.
V-69039 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must generate audit records when security objects are modified.
V-68939 Medium Unused database components, EDB Postgres Advanced Server software, and database objects must be removed.
V-68931 Medium Database software, including EDB Postgres Advanced Server configuration files, must be stored in dedicated directories, separate from the host OS and other applications.
V-68933 Medium Database objects (including but not limited to tables, indexes, storage, stored procedures, functions, triggers, links to software external to the EDB Postgres Advanced Server, etc.) must be owned by database/EDB Postgres Advanced Server principals authorized for ownership.
V-68935 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 EDB Postgres Advanced Server, etc.) must be restricted to authorized users.
V-68937 Medium Default, demonstration and sample databases, database objects, and applications must be removed.
V-69043 Medium Audit records must be generated when categorized information (e.g., classification levels/security levels) is created.
V-69041 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to modify security objects occur.
V-69047 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must generate audit records when privileges/permissions are deleted.
V-69045 Medium Audit records must be generated when unsuccessful attempts to create categorized information (e.g., classification levels/security levels) occur.
V-69049 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to delete privileges/permissions occur.
V-69051 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must generate audit records when security objects are deleted.
V-69053 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to delete security objects occur.
V-69055 Medium Audit records must be generated when categorized information (e.g., classification levels/security levels) is deleted.
V-69057 Medium Audit records must be generated when unsuccessful attempts to delete categorized information (e.g., classification levels/security levels) occur.
V-69059 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must generate audit records when successful logons or connections occur.
V-69069 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must generate audit records when concurrent logons/connections by the same user from different workstations occur.
V-69065 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to execute privileged activities or other system-level access occur.
V-69067 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must generate audit records showing starting and ending time for user access to the database(s).
V-69061 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must generate audit records when unsuccessful logons or connection attempts occur.
V-69063 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must generate audit records for all privileged activities or other system-level access.
V-68989 Medium Execution of software modules (to include stored procedures, functions, and triggers) with elevated privileges must be restricted to necessary cases only.
V-68985 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must associate organization-defined types of security labels having organization-defined security label values with information in transmission.
V-68987 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must prevent non-privileged users from executing privileged functions, to include disabling, circumventing, or altering implemented security safeguards/countermeasures.
V-68981 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must associate organization-defined types of security labels having organization-defined security label values with information in storage.
V-68983 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must associate organization-defined types of security labels having organization-defined security label values with information in process.
V-68905 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish the identity of any user/subject or process associated with the event.
V-68907 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must include additional, more detailed, organization-defined information in the audit records for audit events identified by type, location, or subject.
V-68901 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish the sources (origins) of the events.
V-68903 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish the outcome (success or failure) of the events.
V-68909 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server 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-68967 Medium Access to database files must be limited to relevant processes and to authorized, administrative users.
V-68965 Medium Database contents must be protected from unauthorized and unintended information transfer by enforcement of a data-transfer policy.
V-68963 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must isolate security functions from non-security functions.
V-68961 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must protect the confidentiality and integrity of all information at rest.
V-68969 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must check the validity of all data inputs except those specifically identified by the organization.
V-69073 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must generate audit records when unsuccessful accesses to objects occur.
V-69071 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must be able to generate audit records when successful accesses to objects occur.
V-69075 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must generate audit records for all direct access to the database(s).
V-68999 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must provide a warning to appropriate support staff when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75% of maximum audit record storage capacity.
V-68993 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must utilize centralized management of the content captured in audit records generated by all components of the EDB Postgres Advanced Server.
V-68991 Medium Execution of software modules (to include stored procedures, functions, and triggers) with elevated privileges must be restricted to necessary cases only.
V-68997 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must allocate audit record storage capacity in accordance with organization-defined audit record storage requirements.
V-68995 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must provide centralized configuration of the content to be captured in audit records generated by all components of the EDB Postgres Advanced Server.
V-68913 Medium The audit information produced by the EDB Postgres Advanced Server must be protected from unauthorized read access.
V-68917 Medium The audit information produced by the EDB Postgres Advanced Server must be protected from unauthorized deletion.
V-68915 Medium The audit information produced by the EDB Postgres Advanced Server must be protected from unauthorized modification.
V-68919 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must protect its audit features from unauthorized access.
V-68975 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server 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-68977 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must reveal detailed error messages only to the ISSO, ISSM, SA and DBA.
V-68971 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server and associated applications must reserve the use of dynamic code execution for situations that require it.
V-68973 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server 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-68979 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must automatically terminate a user session after organization-defined conditions or trigger events requiring session disconnect.
V-69009 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server 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-69007 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must produce audit records of its enforcement of access restrictions associated with changes to the configuration of the EDB Postgres Advanced Server or database(s).
V-69005 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must enforce access restrictions associated with changes to the configuration of the EDB Postgres Advanced Server or database(s).
V-69003 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must prohibit user installation of logic modules (stored procedures, functions, triggers, views, etc.) without explicit privileged status.
V-69001 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must provide an immediate real-time alert to appropriate support staff of all audit failure events requiring real-time alerts.
V-69087 Medium Audit records must be generated when categorized information (e.g., classification levels/security levels) is modified.
V-69083 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must off-load audit data to a separate log management facility; this must 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-69089 Medium Audit records must be generated when unsuccessful attempts to modify categorized information (e.g., classification levels/security levels) occur.
V-68941 Medium Unused database components which are integrated in the EDB Postgres Advanced Server and cannot be uninstalled must be disabled.
V-68943 Medium Access to external executables must be disabled or restricted.
V-68945 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server 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-68947 Medium If passwords are used for authentication, the EDB Postgres Advanced Server must store only hashed, salted representations of passwords.
V-68949 Medium If passwords are used for authentication, the EDB Postgres Advanced Server must transmit only encrypted representations of passwords.
V-68879 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must enforce approved authorizations for logical access to information and system resources in accordance with applicable access control policies.
V-69019 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must maintain the confidentiality and integrity of information during preparation for transmission.
V-68875 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must limit the number of concurrent sessions to an organization-defined number per user for all accounts and/or account types.
V-69015 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server 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-68877 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must integrate with an organization-level authentication/access mechanism providing account management and automation for all users, groups, roles, and any other principals.
V-69017 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must implement cryptographic mechanisms preventing the unauthorized disclosure of organization-defined information at rest on organization-defined information system components.
V-69011 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must require users to re-authenticate when organization-defined circumstances or situations require re-authentication.
V-69013 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server 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-69091 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must uniquely identify and authenticate organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of organizational users).
V-68897 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must produce audit records containing time stamps to establish when the events occurred.
V-68895 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish what type of events occurred.
V-68893 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must provide the capability for authorized users to capture, record, and log all content related to a user session.
V-68891 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must initiate support of session auditing upon startup.
V-68899 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish where the events occurred.
V-68951 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server, when utilizing PKI-based authentication, must validate certificates by performing RFC 5280-compliant certification path validation.
V-69029 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to access security objects occur.
V-69021 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must maintain the confidentiality and integrity of information during reception.
V-69023 Medium When invalid inputs are received, the EDB Postgres Advanced Server must behave in a predictable and documented manner that reflects organizational and system objectives.
V-69025 Medium Security-relevant software updates to the EDB Postgres Advanced Server must be installed within the time period directed by an authoritative source (e.g., IAVM, CTOs, DTMs, and STIGs).
V-69027 Medium The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must generate audit records when security objects are accessed.