6.31 Restrict Access to SYSIBMADM.PRIVILEGES

Information

The SYSIBMADM.PRIVILEGES administrative view displays all explicit privileges for all authorization IDs in the currently connected databases' system catalogs. PRIVILEGES schema is SYSIBMADM.

Solution

Perform the following to revoke access from PUBLIC.
1. Connect to the DB2 database.
db2 => connect to $DB2DATABASE user $USERNAME using $PASSWORD
2. Run the following command from the DB2 command window-
db2 => revoke select on SYSIBMADM.PRIVILEGES from public

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/files/162

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL

References: 800-53|AC-6, CSCv6|5.1

Plugin: IBM_DB2DB

Control ID: 730bdb9336264c10bd7b80d806a60d9079e50834b07bc8ec68273fbdd6af1c7e