Title

The DBMS must prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

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 behalf of a prior user/role) from being available to any current user/role (or current process) that obtains access to a shared system resource (e.g., registers, main memory, secondary storage) after the resource has been released back to the information system. Control of information in shared resources is also referred to as object reuse.

Check Content

Review the DBMS architecture to find out if and how it protects the private resources of one process or user (such as working memory, temporary tables, uncommitted data) from unauthorized access by another user or process. If it does not effectively do so, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Deploy a DBMS capable of effectively protecting the private resources of one process or user from unauthorized access by another user or process. Configure the DBMS to effectively protect the private resources of one process or user from unauthorized access by another user or process.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-206573r961149_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-206573

Group Title: SRG-APP-000243

Expert Comments

CCIs tied to check.

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