MongoDB must protect the confidentiality and integrity of all information at rest.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-221178	MD3X-00-000440	SV-221178r879642_rule		High

Description
This control is intended to address the confidentiality and integrity of information at rest in non-mobile devices and covers user information and system information. Information at rest refers to the state of information when it is located on a secondary storage device (e.g., disk drive, tape drive) within an organizational information system. Applications and application users generate information throughout the course of their application use. User data generated, as well as application-specific configuration data, needs to be protected. Organizations may choose to employ different mechanisms to achieve confidentiality and integrity protections, as appropriate. If the confidentiality and integrity of application data is not protected, the data will be open to compromise and unauthorized modification.

Description

This control is intended to address the confidentiality and integrity of information at rest in non-mobile devices and covers user information and system information. Information at rest refers to the state of information when it is located on a secondary storage device (e.g., disk drive, tape drive) within an organizational information system. Applications and application users generate information throughout the course of their application use. User data generated, as well as application-specific configuration data, needs to be protected. Organizations may choose to employ different mechanisms to achieve confidentiality and integrity protections, as appropriate. If the confidentiality and integrity of application data is not protected, the data will be open to compromise and unauthorized modification.

STIG	Date
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced 3.x Security Technical Implementation Guide	2024-01-24

Details

Check Text ( C-22893r411028_chk )
If the MongoDB Encrypted Storage Engines is being used, ensure that the "security.enableEncryption" option is set to "true" in the MongoDB configuration file (default location: /etc/mongod.conf) or that MongoDB was started with the "--enableEncryption" command line option. Check the MongoDB configuration file (default location: /etc/mongod.conf). If the following parameter is not present, this is a finding. security: enableEncryption: "true" If any mongod process is started with "--enableEncryption false", this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-22893r411028_chk )

If the MongoDB Encrypted Storage Engines is being used, ensure that the "security.enableEncryption" option is set to "true" in the MongoDB configuration file (default location: /etc/mongod.conf) or that MongoDB was started with the "--enableEncryption" command line option.

Check the MongoDB configuration file (default location: /etc/mongod.conf).

If the following parameter is not present, this is a finding.

security:
enableEncryption: "true"

If any mongod process is started with "--enableEncryption false", this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-22882r411029_fix)
Ensure that the MongoDB Configuration file (default location: /etc/mongod.conf) has the following set: security: enableEncryption: "true" Ensure that any mongod process that contains the option "--enableEcryption" has "true" as its parameter value (e.g., "--enableEncryption true"). Stop/start (restart) and mongod process using either the MongoDB configuration file or that contains the "--enableEncryption" option.

Fix Text (F-22882r411029_fix)

Ensure that the MongoDB Configuration file (default location: /etc/mongod.conf) has the following set:

security:
enableEncryption: "true"

Ensure that any mongod process that contains the option "--enableEcryption" has "true" as its parameter value (e.g., "--enableEncryption true").

Stop/start (restart) and mongod process using either the MongoDB configuration file or that contains the "--enableEncryption" option.