Title

The application must provide the capability to specify administrative users and grant them the right to change application security attributes pertaining to application data. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

Security attributes are abstractions representing the basic properties or characteristics of an entity (e.g., subjects and objects) with respect to safeguarding information. Security attributes are typically associated with internal data structures (e.g., records, buffers, files) within the application and are used to enable the implementation of access control and flow control policies, reflect special dissemination, handling or distribution instructions, or support other aspects of the organizational information security policy. Organizations define the security attributes of their data. (e.g., classified, FOUO, sensitive). Changing security attributes within an application is usually performed by a person or persons who have been delegated the task and the associated responsibilities accorded to application administrative personnel. Applications creating and/or assigning security attributes to data must have the flexibility to allow authorized staff to change these security attributes. Rationale for non-applicability: This SRG applies to single-user applications. Single-user applications do not have administrative users.

Check Content

This requirement is NA for the MAPP SRG.

Fix Text

The requirement is NA. No fix is required.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-46380r1_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-35093

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Expert Comments

CCIs tied to check.

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