6.18 Restrict Access to SYSCAT.SECURITYPOLICYEXEMPTIONS

Information

The SYSCAT.SECURITYPOLICYEXEMPTIONS contains the exemption on a security policy that was granted to a database account. It is recommended that the PUBLIC role be restricted from accessing this view.

PUBLIC should not be able to view all the exemption rules to the database security policies.

Solution

Perform the following to revoke access from PUBLIC.
1. Connect to the DB2 database.
db2 => connect to $DB2INSTANCE user $USERNAME using $PASSWORD
2. Run the following command from the DB2 command window:
db2 => REVOKE SELECT ON SYSCAT.SECURITYPOLICYEXEMPTIONS FROM PUBLIC

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/files/1654

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL

References: 800-53|AC-6

Plugin: IBM_DB2DB

Control ID: bbaba50b5d16abda9ed1e3b378a2d89e6c970d7cf9efd007e84916ce0a4d96b7