Title

MongoDB must uniquely identify and authenticate non-organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of non-organizational users). (Cat II impact)

Discussion

Non-organizational users include all information system users other than organizational users, which include organizational employees or individuals the organization deems to have equivalent status of employees (e.g., contractors, guest researchers, individuals from allied nations). Non-organizational users must be uniquely identified and authenticated for all accesses other than those accesses explicitly identified and documented by the organization when related to the use of anonymous access, such as accessing a web server. Accordingly, a risk assessment is used in determining the authentication needs of the organization. Scalability, practicality, and security are simultaneously considered in balancing the need to ensure ease of use for access to federal information and information systems with the need to protect and adequately mitigate risk to organizational operations, organizational assets, individuals, other organizations, and the Nation. Satisfies: SRG-APP-000180-DB-000115, SRG-APP-000211-DB-000122, SRG-APP-000211-DB-000124

Check Content

MongoDB grants access to data and commands through role-based authorization and provides built-in roles that provide the different levels of access commonly needed in a database system. You can additionally create user-defined roles. Check a user's role to ensure correct privileges for the function: Prereq: To view a user's roles, you must have the "viewUser" privilege. Connect to MongoDB. For each database in the system, identify the user's roles for the database: use <database> db.getUser("[username]") The server will return a document with the user's roles. View a role's privileges: Prereq: To view a user's roles, you must have the "viewUser" privilege. For each database, identify the privileges granted by a role: use <database> db.getRole( "read", { showPrivileges: true } ) The server will return a document with the "privileges" and "inheritedPrivileges" arrays. The "privileges returned document lists the privileges directly specified by the role and excludes those privileges inherited from other roles. The "inheritedPrivileges" returned document lists all privileges granted by this role, both directly specified and inherited. If the role does not inherit from other roles, the two fields are the same. If a user has a role with inappropriate privileges, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Prereq: To view a user's roles, must have the "viewUser" privilege. Connect to MongoDB. For each database, identify the user's roles for the database. use <database> db.getUser("[username]") The server will return a document with the user's roles. To revoke a user's role from a database use the db.revokeRolesFromUser() method. To grant a role to a user use the db.grantRolesToUser() method.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-221175r961053_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-221175

Group Title: SRG-APP-000180-DB-000115

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