| V-251216 | High | Redis Enterprise products must be a version supported by the vendor. | Unsupported commercial and database systems should not be used because fixes to newly identified bugs will not be implemented by the vendor. The lack of support can result in potential... |
| V-251236 | High | Access to the Redis Enterprise control plane must be restricted. | If administrative functionality or information regarding DBMS management is presented on an interface available for users, information on DBMS settings may be inadvertently made available to the... |
| V-251231 | High | Redis Enterprise DBMS must use NSA-approved cryptography to protect classified information in accordance with the data owners requirements. | Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to protect data. The application must implement cryptographic modules adhering to the higher standards... |
| V-251226 | High | Redis Enterprise DBMS must enforce authorized access to all PKI private keys stored/used by Redis Enterprise DBMS. | The DoD standard for authentication is DoD-approved PKI certificates. PKI certificate-based authentication is performed by requiring the certificate holder to cryptographically prove possession of... |
| V-251229 | High | Redis Enterprise DBMS must use NIST FIPS 140-2 or 140-3 validated cryptographic modules for cryptographic operations. | Use of weak or not validated cryptographic algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption and digital signatures to protect data. Weak algorithms can be easily broken and not validated... |
| V-251228 | High | Redis Enterprise DBMS must obscure feedback of authentication information during the authentication process to protect the information from possible exploitation/use by unauthorized individuals. | The DoD standard for authentication is DoD-approved PKI certificates.
Normally, with PKI authentication, the interaction with the user for authentication will be handled by a software component... |
| V-251184 | High | Redis Enterprise DBMS must integrate with an organization-level authentication/access mechanism providing account management and automation for all users, groups, roles, and any other principals. | Enterprise environments make account management for applications and databases challenging and complex. A manual process for account management functions adds the risk of a potential oversight or... |
| V-251185 | High | Redis Enterprise DBMS must enforce approved authorizations for logical access to information and system resources in accordance with applicable access control policies. | Authentication with a DoD-approved PKI certificate does not necessarily imply authorization to access the DBMS. To mitigate the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive information by entities... |
| V-251242 | High | Redis Enterprise DBMS must protect the confidentiality and integrity of all information at rest. | 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... |
| V-251217 | Medium | Unused database components, DBMS software, and database objects must be removed. | Information systems are capable of providing a wide variety of functions and services. Some of the functions and services, provided by default, may not be necessary to support essential... |
| V-251214 | Medium | Redis Enterprise 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. | Configuring the DBMS to implement organization-wide security implementation guides and security checklists ensures compliance with federal standards and establishes a common security baseline... |
| V-251215 | Medium | Redis Enterprise 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. | Use of nonsecure network functions, ports, protocols, and services exposes the system to avoidable threats. |
| V-251199 | Medium | Redis Enterprise 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. | Redis Enterprise can be configured to generate alerts for certain other key events, but not in the instance of an audit failure. The DBMS would depend on the base Linux OS to detect and shut down... |
| V-251198 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must provide an immediate real-time alert to appropriate support staff of all audit log failures. | Redis Enterprise does not send immediate real-time alerts to support staff in the event of audit log failures; however, the host RHEL server can be configured to send such alerts using scripts or... |
| V-251210 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must limit privileges to change software modules; to include stored procedures, functions, and triggers, and links to software external to Redis Enterprise DBMS. | If the system were to allow any user to make changes to software libraries, those changes might be implemented without undergoing the appropriate testing and approvals that are part of a robust... |
| V-251211 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS software installation account must be restricted to authorized users. | When dealing with change control issues, it should be noted any changes to the hardware, software, and/or firmware components of the information system and/or application can have significant... |
| V-251195 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must allocate audit record storage capacity in accordance with organization-defined audit record storage requirements. | To ensure sufficient storage capacity for the audit logs, the DBMS must be able to allocate audit record storage capacity. Although another requirement (SRG-APP-000515-DB-000318) mandates that... |
| V-251194 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must provide centralized configuration of the content to be captured in audit records generated by all components of Redis Enterprise DBMS. | If the configuration of the DBMS's auditing is spread across multiple locations in the database management software, or across multiple commands, only loosely related, it is harder to use and... |
| V-251197 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must provide a warning to appropriate support staff when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75 percent of maximum audit record storage capacity. | Organizations are required to use a central log management system, so under normal conditions, the audit space allocated to the DBMS on its own server will not be an issue. However, space will... |
| V-251196 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must offload 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. | Information stored in one location is vulnerable to accidental or incidental deletion or alteration.
Offloading is a common process in information systems with limited audit storage capacity.... |
| V-251191 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must allow only the ISSM (or individuals or roles appointed by the ISSM) to select which auditable events are to be audited. | Without the capability to restrict which roles and individuals can select which events are audited, unauthorized personnel may be able to prevent or interfere with the auditing of critical... |
| V-251190 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must provide audit record generation capability for DoD-defined auditable events within all DBMS/database components. | Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one.
Audit... |
| V-251193 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must use centralized management of the content captured in audit records generated by all components of Redis Enterprise DBMS. | Without the ability to centrally manage the content captured in the audit records, identification, troubleshooting, and correlation of suspicious behavior would be difficult and could lead to a... |
| V-251192 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must generate audit records for all direct access to the database(s). | In this context, direct access is any query, command, or call to the DBMS that comes from any source other than the application(s) that it supports. Examples would be the command line or a... |
| V-251189 | Medium | Execution of software modules (to include stored procedures, functions, and triggers) with elevated privileges must be restricted to necessary cases only. | In certain situations, to provide required functionality, a DBMS needs to execute internal logic (stored procedures, functions, triggers, etc.) and/or external code modules with elevated... |
| V-251212 | Medium | Database software, including DBMS configuration files, must be stored in dedicated directories, or DASD pools, separate from the host OS and other applications. | When dealing with change control issues, it should be noted any changes to the hardware, software, and/or firmware components of the information system and/or application can potentially have... |
| V-251208 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must prohibit user installation of logic modules (stored procedures, functions, triggers, views, etc.) without explicit privileged status. | Redis Enterprise permits the installation of logic modules through a control plane layer to the database, which requires privilege access to the control plane. This is provisioned for support... |
| V-251234 | Medium | Redis Enterprise 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. | Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to protect data. The application must implement cryptographic modules adhering to the higher standards... |
| V-251213 | 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 Redis Enterprise DBMS, etc.) must be restricted to authorized users. | If the DBMS were to allow any user to make changes to database structure or logic, those changes might be implemented without undergoing the appropriate testing and approvals that are part of a... |
| V-251186 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must enforce discretionary access control policies, as defined by the data owner, over defined subjects and objects. | Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the notion that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have discretion over who should be authorized to access the object and in... |
| V-251209 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must enforce access restrictions associated with changes to the configuration of Redis Enterprise DBMS or database(s). | Failure to provide logical access restrictions associated with changes to configuration may have significant effects on the overall security of the system.
When dealing with access restrictions... |
| V-251230 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must uniquely identify and authenticate non-organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of non-organizational users). | Non-organizational users include all information system users other than organizational users, which include organizational employees or individuals the organization deems to have equivalent... |
| V-251244 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must implement cryptographic mechanisms preventing the unauthorized disclosure of organization-defined information at rest on organization-defined information system components. | DBMSs handling data requiring "data at rest" protections must employ cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized disclosure and modification of the information at rest. These cryptographic... |
| V-251237 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must recognize only system-generated session identifiers. | This requirement focuses on communications protection for the DBMS session rather than for the network packet. The intent of this control is to establish grounds for confidence at each end of a... |
| V-251245 | Medium | Database contents must be protected from unauthorized and unintended information transfer by enforcement of a data-transfer policy. | Security functions are the hardware, software, and/or firmware of the information system responsible for enforcing the system security policy and supporting the isolation of code and data on which... |
| V-251238 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must maintain the authenticity of communications sessions by guarding against man-in-the-middle attacks that guess at Session ID values. | Session IDs are tokens generated by web applications to uniquely identify an application user's session. Applications will make application decisions and execute business logic based on the... |
| V-251247 | Medium | Access to database files must be limited to relevant processes and to authorized, administrative users. | Developers and implementers can increase the assurance in security functions by employing well-defined security policy models; structured, disciplined, and rigorous hardware and software... |
| V-251246 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources. | The purpose of this control is to prevent information, including encrypted representations of information, produced by the actions of a prior user/role (or the actions of a process acting on... |
| V-251241 | Medium | In the event of a system failure, Redis Enterprise 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. | Failure to a known state can address safety or security in accordance with the mission/business needs of the organization.
Failure to a known secure state helps prevent a loss of confidentiality,... |
| V-251240 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must fail to a secure state if system initialization fails, shutdown fails, or aborts fail. | Failure to a known state can address safety or security in accordance with the mission/business needs of the organization.
Databases must fail to a known consistent state. Transactions must be... |
| V-251243 | Medium | Redis Enterprise 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. | DBMSs handling data requiring data at rest protections must employ cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized disclosure and modification of the information at rest. These cryptographic... |
| V-251239 | Medium | Redis Enterprise 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. | Only DoD-approved external PKIs have been evaluated to ensure that they have security controls and identity vetting procedures in place which are sufficient for DoD systems to rely on the identity... |
| V-251201 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must record time stamps, in audit records and application data, that can be mapped to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC, formerly GMT). | If time stamps are not consistently applied and there is no common time reference, it is difficult to perform forensic analysis.
Time stamps generated by the DBMS must include date and time. Time... |
| V-251200 | Medium | Redis Enterprise 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. | It is critical that when the DBMS is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required, it take action to mitigate the failure. Audit processing failures include software/hardware errors;... |
| V-251203 | Medium | The audit information produced by Redis Enterprise DBMS must be protected from unauthorized modification. | If audit data were to become compromised, competent forensic analysis and discovery of the true source of potentially malicious system activity would be impossible to achieve.
To ensure the... |
| V-251202 | Medium | The audit information produced by Redis Enterprise DBMS must be protected from unauthorized read access. | If audit data were to become compromised, competent forensic analysis and discovery of the true source of potentially malicious system activity would be difficult, if not impossible, to achieve.... |
| V-251249 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must maintain the confidentiality and integrity of information during reception. | Information can be either unintentionally or maliciously disclosed or modified during reception, including, for example, during aggregation, at protocol transformation points, and during... |
| V-251204 | Medium | The audit information produced by Redis Enterprise DBMS must be protected from unauthorized deletion. | If audit data were to become compromised, competent forensic analysis and discovery of the true source of potentially malicious system activity would be impossible to achieve.
To ensure the... |
| V-251207 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must protect its audit features from unauthorized removal. | Redis Enterprise does not come with unique tools to view log data and logging is not configurable. Logs are stored in a standard log file on the host operating system that is accessible using... |
| V-251206 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must protect its audit configuration from unauthorized modification. | Redis Enterprise does not come with unique tools to view log data and logging is not configurable. Logs are stored in a standard log file on the host operating system that is accessible using... |
| V-251223 | Medium | If passwords are used for authentication, Redis Enterprise DBMS must store only hashed, salted representations of passwords. | The DoD standard for authentication is DoD-approved PKI certificates.
Authentication based on User ID and Password may be used only when it is not possible to employ a PKI certificate, and... |
| V-251222 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must uniquely identify and authenticate organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of organizational users). | Redis Enterprise allows the user to configure unique users per role. Review roles and ensure roles use unique organizational principles per user to the database. Redis does come with a default... |
| V-251188 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must prevent non-privileged users from executing privileged functions, to include disabling, circumventing, or altering implemented security safeguards/countermeasures. | Preventing non-privileged users from executing privileged functions mitigates the risk that unauthorized individuals or processes may gain unnecessary access to information or privileges.
System... |
| V-251220 | Medium | Redis Enterprise 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. | To prevent unauthorized connection of devices, unauthorized transfer of information, or unauthorized tunneling (i.e., embedding of data types within data types), organizations must disable or... |
| V-251225 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS, when utilizing PKI-based authentication, must validate certificates by performing RFC 5280-compliant certification path validation. | The DoD standard for authentication is DoD-approved PKI certificates.
A certificate's certification path is the path from the end entity certificate to a trusted root certification authority... |
| V-251227 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must map the PKI-authenticated identity to an associated user account. | The DoD standard for authentication is DoD-approved PKI certificates. Once a PKI certificate has been validated, it must be mapped to a DBMS user account for the authenticated identity to be... |
| V-251224 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must prohibit the use of cached authenticators after an organization-defined time period. | If cached authentication information is out of date, the validity of the authentication information may be questionable.
For more information on configuring time out periods on Redis Enterprise... |
| V-251187 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must enforce access control lists, as defined by the data owner, over defined subjects and objects. | Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the notion that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have discretion over who should be authorized to access the object and in... |
| V-251218 | Medium | Unused database components that are integrated in Redis Enterprise DBMS and cannot be uninstalled must be disabled. | Information systems are capable of providing a wide variety of functions and services. Some of the functions and services, provided by default, may not be necessary to support essential... |
| V-251233 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must implement NIST FIPS 140-2 or 140-3 validated cryptographic modules to generate and validate cryptographic hashes. | Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to protect data. The application must implement cryptographic modules adhering to the higher standards... |
| V-251219 | Medium | Access to external executables must be disabled or restricted. | Information systems are capable of providing a wide variety of functions and services. Some of the functions and services, provided by default, may not be necessary to support essential... |
| V-251232 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must implement NIST FIPS 140-2 or 140-3 validated cryptographic modules to provision digital signatures. | Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to protect data. The application must implement cryptographic modules adhering to the higher standards... |
| V-251426 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must generate audit records for DoD-defined auditable events within all DBMS/database components. | Redis Enterprise does not generate all the DoD-required audit records.
This could lead to incomplete information as follows:
- Without an audit trail, unauthorized access to protected data and... |
| V-251205 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must protect its audit features from unauthorized access. | Redis Enterprise does not come with unique tools to view log data and logging is not configurable. Logs are stored in a standard log file on the host operating system that is accessible using... |
| V-251428 | Medium | If DBMS authentication using passwords is employed, Redis Enterprise DBMS must enforce the DoD standards for password complexity and lifetime. | OS/enterprise authentication and identification must be used (SRG-APP-000023-DB-000001). Native DBMS authentication may be used only when circumstances make it unavoidable and must be documented... |
| V-251248 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must maintain the confidentiality and integrity of information during preparation for transmission. | Information can be either unintentionally or maliciously disclosed or modified during preparation for transmission, including, for example, during aggregation, at protocol transformation points,... |
| V-251253 | Medium | Security-relevant software updates to Redis Enterprise DBMS must be installed within the time period directed by an authoritative source (e.g., IAVM, CTOs, DTMs, and STIGs). | Security flaws with software applications, including database management systems, are discovered daily. Vendors are constantly updating and patching their products to address newly discovered... |
| V-251250 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS and associated applications must reserve the use of dynamic code execution for situations that require it. | With respect to database management systems, one class of threat is known as code injection. It takes advantage of the dynamic execution capabilities of various programming languages, including... |
| V-251251 | Medium | Redis Enterprise 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. | With respect to database management systems, one class of threat is known as code injection. It takes advantage of the dynamic execution capabilities of various programming languages, including... |
| V-251221 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must require users to reauthenticate when organization-defined circumstances or situations require reauthentication. | The DoD standard for authentication of an interactive user is the presentation of a Common Access Card (CAC) or other physical token bearing a valid, current, DoD-issued Public Key Infrastructure... |
| V-251235 | Medium | Redis Enterprise DBMS must separate user functionality (including user interface services) from database management functionality. | Information system management functionality includes functions necessary to administer databases, network components, workstations, or servers and typically requires privileged user access.Â
The... |
| V-251183 | Low | Redis Enterprise DBMS must limit the number of concurrent sessions to an organization-defined number per user for all accounts and/or account types. | Database management includes the ability to control the number of users and user sessions utilizing a DBMS. Unlimited concurrent connections to the DBMS could allow a successful denial-of-service... |
| V-251252 | Low | When updates are applied to Redis Enterprise DBMS software, any software components that have been replaced or made unnecessary must be removed. | Previous versions of DBMS components that are not removed from the information system after updates have been installed may be exploited by adversaries.
Some DBMSs' installation tools may remove... |
