4.3.11 Restrict Access to SYSIBM.SYSDBAUTH

Information

The SYSIBM.SYSDBAUTH table contains information on authorities granted to users or groups of users. It is recommended that the PUBLIC role be restricted from accessing this table.

Rationale:

This table contains all the grants in the database and may be used as an attack vector.

Solution

Perform the following to revoke access from PUBLIC.

Connect to the Db2 database.

db2 => connect to <dbname>

Run the following command:

db2 => REVOKE SELECT ON SYSIBM.SYSDBAUTH FROM PUBLIC

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/10752

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL, MEDIA PROTECTION

References: 800-53|AC-3, 800-53|AC-5, 800-53|AC-6, 800-53|MP-2, CSCv7|14.6

Plugin: IBM_DB2DB

Control ID: 6ae1ba8b33655212ddad6f94bae0ecb3afffcec699bfdf72ca5e1611220a7528