6.17 Restrict Access to SYSCAT.SECURITYPOLICYCOMPONENTRULES

Information

The SYSCAT.SECURITYPOLICYCOMPONENTRULES view contains the access rights for a security label component. It is recommended that the PUBLIC role be restricted from accessing this view.

PUBLIC should not be able to view all the access rules of 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.SECURITYPOLICYCOMPONENTRULES 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: bdb7f7f254e201050948999c569d0d6ad3e3b2fc79ae9b980d0c4df73f29ed71