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VMW vRealize Operations Manager 6.x PostgreSQL Security Technical Implementation Guide


Overview

Date Finding Count (69)
2018-10-11 CAT I (High): 5 CAT II (Med): 63 CAT III (Low): 1
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 III - Administrative Public)

Finding ID Severity Title
V-88345 High The vROps PostgreSQL DB must implement NIST FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic modules to generate and validate cryptographic hashes.
V-88347 High The vROps PostgreSQL DB must implement NIST FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic modules to protect unclassified information requiring confidentiality and cryptographic protection, in accordance with the data owners requirements.
V-88343 High The vROps PostgreSQL DB must implement NIST FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic modules to provision digital signatures.
V-88269 High The vROps PostgreSQL DB must use NIST FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic modules for cryptographic operations.
V-88297 High Security-relevant software updates to the vROps PostgreSQL DB must be installed within the time period directed by an authoritative source (e.g. IAVM, CTOs, DTMs, and STIGs).
V-88235 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish the outcome (success or failure) of the events.
V-88237 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish the identity of any user/subject or process associated with the event.
V-88351 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB 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.
V-88231 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish where the events occurred.
V-88277 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must reveal detailed error messages only to the ISSO, ISSM, SA and DBA.
V-88233 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish the sources (origins) of the events.
V-88307 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must generate audit records when privileges/permissions are modified.
V-88243 Medium The audit information produced by the vROps PostgreSQL DB must be protected from unauthorized read access.
V-88239 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must include additional, more detailed, organization-defined information in the audit records for audit events identified by type, location, or subject.
V-88257 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 vROps PostgreSQL DB, etc.) must be restricted to authorized users.
V-88335 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must generate audit records when concurrent logons/connections by the same user from different workstations occur.
V-88255 Medium vROps PostgreSQL DB objects (including but not limited to tables, indexes, storage, stored procedures, functions, triggers, links to software external to the DBMS, etc.) must be owned by vROps PostgreSQL DB principals authorized for ownership.
V-88337 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must be able to generate audit records when successful accesses to objects occur.
V-88253 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must protect its audit features from unauthorized removal.
V-88331 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to execute privileged activities or other system-level access occur.
V-88251 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must protect its audit configuration from unauthorized modification.
V-88319 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must generate audit records when security objects are deleted.
V-88279 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must utilize centralized management of the content captured in audit records generated by all components of the DBMS.
V-88317 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to delete privileges/permissions occur.
V-88315 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must generate audit records when privileges/permissions are deleted.
V-88217 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must provide audit record generation for DoD-defined auditable events within all DBMS/database components.
V-88313 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to modify security objects occur.
V-88215 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must limit the number of concurrent sessions to an organization-defined number per user for all accounts and/or account types.
V-88311 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must generate audit records when security objects are modified.
V-88219 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must allow only the ISSM (or individuals or roles appointed by the ISSM) to select which auditable events are to be audited.
V-88339 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must generate audit records when unsuccessful accesses to objects occur.
V-88281 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must provide centralized configuration of the content to be captured in audit records generated by all components of the DBMS.
V-88283 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must provide a warning to appropriate support staff when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75% of maximum audit record storage capacity.
V-88259 Medium Default demonstration and sample databases, database objects, and applications must be removed.
V-88287 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must record time stamps, in audit records and application data that can be mapped to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC, formerly GMT).
V-88289 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must generate time stamps, for audit records and application data, with a minimum granularity of one second.
V-88249 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must protect its audit features from unauthorized access.
V-88275 Medium vROps PostgreSQL DB contents must be protected from unauthorized and unintended information transfer by enforcement of a data-transfer policy.
V-88285 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must provide an immediate real-time alert to appropriate support staff of all audit failure events requiring real-time alerts.
V-88223 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must initiate session auditing upon startup.
V-88221 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must be able to generate audit records when privileges/permissions are retrieved.
V-88341 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must generate audit records for all direct access to the database(s).
V-88227 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must produce audit records containing sufficient information to establish what type of events occurred.
V-88225 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must provide authorized users to capture, record, and log all content related to a user session.
V-88229 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must produce audit records containing time stamps to establish when the events occurred.
V-88349 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB 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-88301 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to access security objects occur.
V-88245 Medium The audit information produced by the vROps PostgreSQL DB must be protected from unauthorized modification.
V-88325 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must generate audit records when successful logons or connections occur.
V-88247 Medium The audit information produced by the vROps PostgreSQL DB must be protected from unauthorized deletion.
V-88305 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to add privileges/permissions occur.
V-88321 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to delete security objects occur.
V-88309 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to modify privileges/permissions occur.
V-88267 Medium If passwords are used for authentication, the vROps PostgreSQL DB must transmit only encrypted representations of passwords.
V-88265 Medium If passwords are used for authentication, the vROps PostgreSQL DB must store only hashed, salted representations of passwords.
V-88263 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must uniquely identify and authenticate organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of organizational users).
V-88329 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must generate audit records for all privileged activities or other system-level access.
V-88261 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB 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-88271 Medium In the event of a system failure, the vROps PostgreSQL DB must preserve any information necessary to determine cause of failure and any information necessary to return to operations with least disruption to mission processes.
V-88273 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must isolate security functions from non-security functions.
V-88327 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must generate audit records when unsuccessful logons or connection attempts occur.
V-88303 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must generate audit records when privileges/permissions are added.
V-88293 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB 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-88291 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must enforce access restrictions associated with changes to the configuration of the DBMS or database(s).
V-88333 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must generate audit records showing starting and ending time for user access to the database(s).
V-88295 Medium When invalid inputs are received, the vROps PostgreSQL DB must behave in a predictable and documented manner that reflects organizational and system objectives.
V-88323 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must generate audit records when categories of information (e.g., classification levels/security levels) are deleted.
V-88299 Medium The vROps PostgreSQL DB must be able to generate audit records when security objects are accessed.
V-88241 Low The vROps PostgreSQL DB 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.