6.2 Ensure 'CLR Assembly Permission Set' is set to 'SAFE_ACCESS' for All CLR Assemblies

Information

Setting CLR Assembly Permission Sets to SAFE_ACCESS will hinder assemblies from accessing external system resources such as files, the network, environment variables, or the registry.

Rationale:

Assemblies with EXTERNAL_ACCESS or UNSAFE permission sets can be used to access sensitive areas of the operating system, steal and/or transmit data and alter the state and other protection measures of the underlying Windows Operating System.

Assemblies which are Microsoft-created (is_user_defined = 0) are excluded from this check as they are required for overall system functionality.

Impact:

The remediation measure should first be tested within a test environment prior to production to ensure the assembly still functions as designed with SAFE permission setting.

Solution

USE <database_name>;
GO
ALTER ASSEMBLY <assembly_name> WITH PERMISSION_SET = SAFE;

Default Value:

SAFE permission is set by default.

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/7201

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT, SYSTEM AND SERVICES ACQUISITION

References: 800-53|CM-1, 800-53|CM-2, 800-53|CM-6, 800-53|CM-7, 800-53|CM-7(1), 800-53|CM-9, 800-53|SA-3, 800-53|SA-8, 800-53|SA-10, CSCv7|5.1

Plugin: MS_SQLDB

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