Title

Access to database files must be limited to relevant processes and to authorized, administrative users. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

Applications, including DBMSs, must prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources. Permitting only DBMS processes and authorized, administrative users to have access to the files where the database resides helps ensure that those files are not shared inappropriately and are not open to backdoor access and manipulation.

Check Content

Review the permissions granted to users by the operating system/file system on the database files, database log files and database backup files. If any user/role who is not an authorized system administrator with a need to know or database administrator with a need to know, or a system account for running DBMS processes, is permitted to read/view any of these files, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the permissions granted by the operating system/file system on the database files, database log files, and database backup files so that only relevant system accounts and authorized system administrators and database administrators with a need to know are permitted to read/view these files.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-206574r879649_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-206574

Group Title: SRG-APP-000243

Expert Comments

CCIs tied to check.

Controls tied to check. These are derived from the CCIs shown above.