Title

The EDB Postgres Advanced Server must initiate support of session auditing upon startup. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

Session auditing is for use when a user's activities are under investigation. Typically, this DBMS capability would be used in conjunction with comparable monitoring of a user's online session, involving other software components such as operating systems, web servers, and front-end user applications. The current requirement, however, deals specifically with the DBMS. To be sure of capturing all activity during those periods when session auditing is in use, database auditing needs to be in operation for the whole time the DBMS is running.

Check Content

Execute the following SQL as the "enterprisedb" operating system user: > psql edb -c "SHOW edb_audit_statement" If the result is not "all" or if the current setting for this requirement has not been noted and approved by the organization in the system documentation, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Execute the following SQL as the "enterprisedb" operating system user: psql edb -c "ALTER SYSTEM SET edb_audit_statement = 'all'" psql edb -c "SELECT pg_reload_conf()" or Update the system documentation to note the organizationally approved setting and corresponding justification of the setting for this requirement.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-259218r938707_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-259218

Group Title: SRG-APP-000092-DB-000208

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