Production databases should be protected from unauthorized access by developers on shared production/development host systems.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-3820	DG0077-ORACLE10	SV-24390r1_rule	ECLP-1	Medium

Description
Developers granted elevated database, operating system privileges on systems that support both development, and production databases can affect the operation and/or security of the production database system. Operating system and database privileges assigned to developers on shared development and production systems should be restricted.

STIG	Date
Oracle 10 Database Instance STIG	2014-01-14

Details

Check Text ( None )
None

Fix Text (F-25684r1_fix)
Develop, document and implement procedures to review and maintain privileges granted to developers on shared production and development host systems and databases. Recommend establishing a dedicated DBMS host for production DBMS installations (See Checks DG0109 and DG0110). A dedicated host system in this case refers to an instance of the operating system at a minimum. The operating system may reside on a virtual host machine where supported by the DBMS vendor.

Fix Text (F-25684r1_fix)

Develop, document and implement procedures to review and maintain privileges granted to developers on shared production and development host systems and databases.

Recommend establishing a dedicated DBMS host for production DBMS installations (See Checks DG0109 and DG0110).

A dedicated host system in this case refers to an instance of the operating system at a minimum.

The operating system may reside on a virtual host machine where supported by the DBMS vendor.