MarkLogic Server must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to delete privileges/permissions occur.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-220403	ML09-00-010600	SV-220403r879870_rule		Medium

Description
Failed attempts to change the permissions, privileges, and roles granted to users and roles must be tracked. Without an audit trail, unauthorized attempts to elevate or restrict privileges could go undetected. To aid in diagnosis, it is necessary to keep track of failed attempts in addition to the successful ones.

STIG	Date
MarkLogic Server v9 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2024-01-24

Details

Check Text ( C-22118r401660_chk )
Check MarkLogic audit configurations to verify that audit records are produced when the system denies attempts to remove, revoke, or deny privileges/permissions/role membership, or when other errors prevent attempts to remove, revoke, or deny privileges/permissions/role membership to any user or role. Perform the check from the MarkLogic Server Admin Interface with a user that holds administrative-level privileges. 1. Click the Groups icon. 2. Click the group in which the configuration to be checked resides (e.g., Default). 3. Click the Auditing icon on the left tree menu. 4. Inspect the audit enabled field. A value of false means auditing is not enabled and this is a finding. 5. If audit enabled field is true, but the user-role-removal event is not selected, this is a finding. 6. Under the Audit Restrictions - Outcome section, verify the security-access event for auditing is set to "both". If the setting is not "both", this is a finding. 7. If any roles, URIs, or users are identified in audit restrictions and not documented in the System Security Plan, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-22118r401660_chk )

Check MarkLogic audit configurations to verify that audit records are produced when the system denies attempts to remove, revoke, or deny privileges/permissions/role membership, or when other errors prevent attempts to remove, revoke, or deny privileges/permissions/role membership to any user or role.

Perform the check from the MarkLogic Server Admin Interface with a user that holds administrative-level privileges.

1. Click the Groups icon.
2. Click the group in which the configuration to be checked resides (e.g., Default).
3. Click the Auditing icon on the left tree menu.
4. Inspect the audit enabled field. A value of false means auditing is not enabled and this is a finding.
5. If audit enabled field is true, but the user-role-removal event is not selected, this is a finding.
6. Under the Audit Restrictions - Outcome section, verify the security-access event for auditing is set to "both". If the setting is not "both", this is a finding.
7. If any roles, URIs, or users are identified in audit restrictions and not documented in the System Security Plan, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-22107r401661_fix)
Configure MarkLogic to produce audit records when the system denies attempts to remove, revoke, or deny privileges/permissions/role membership, or when other errors prevent attempts to remove, revoke, or deny privileges/permissions/role membership to any user or role. Perform the fix from the MarkLogic Server Admin Interface with a user that holds administrative-level privileges. 1. Click the Groups icon. 2. Click the group in which the configuration to be checked resides (e.g., Default). 3. Click the Auditing icon on the left tree menu. 4. Set the audit enabled field to true. 5. Enable user-role-removal event for auditing. 6. Enable "both" for the audit restriction under the outcome selection. 7. Ensure no roles, URIs, or users are identified in the audit restrictions, unless documented in the System Security Plan.

Fix Text (F-22107r401661_fix)

Configure MarkLogic to produce audit records when the system denies attempts to remove, revoke, or deny privileges/permissions/role membership, or when other errors prevent attempts to remove, revoke, or deny privileges/permissions/role membership to any user or role.

Perform the fix from the MarkLogic Server Admin Interface with a user that holds administrative-level privileges.

1. Click the Groups icon.
2. Click the group in which the configuration to be checked resides (e.g., Default).
3. Click the Auditing icon on the left tree menu.
4. Set the audit enabled field to true.
5. Enable user-role-removal event for auditing.
6. Enable "both" for the audit restriction under the outcome selection.
7. Ensure no roles, URIs, or users are identified in the audit restrictions, unless documented in the System Security Plan.