VMware Postgres must set client-side character encoding to UTF-8.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-239216	VCPG-67-000024	SV-239216r717067_rule		Medium

Description
A common vulnerability is unplanned behavior when invalid inputs are received. This requirement guards against adverse or unintended system behavior caused by invalid inputs, where information system responses to the invalid input may be disruptive or cause the system to fail to an unsafe state.

STIG	Date
VMware vSphere 6.7 PostgreSQL Security Technical Implementation Guide	2021-04-15

Details

Check Text ( C-42449r679019_chk )
At the command prompt, execute the following command: # /opt/vmware/vpostgres/current/bin/psql -U postgres -c "SHOW client_encoding;"|sed -n 3p|sed -e 's/^[ ]*//' Expected result: UTF8 If the output does not match the expected result, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-42408r679020_fix)
At the command prompt, execute the following commands: # /opt/vmware/vpostgres/current/bin/psql -U postgres -c "ALTER SYSTEM SET client_encoding TO 'UTF8';" # /opt/vmware/vpostgres/current/bin/psql -U postgres -c "SELECT pg_reload_conf();"