CD12-00-005300 - PostgreSQL must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to retrieve privileges/permissions occur.

Information

Under some circumstances, it may be useful to monitor who/what is reading privilege/permission/role information. Therefore, it must be possible to configure auditing to do this. PostgreSQLs typically make such information available through views or functions.

This requirement addresses explicit requests for privilege/permission/role membership information. It does not refer to the implicit retrieval of privileges/permissions/role memberships that PostgreSQL continually performs to determine if any and every action on the database is permitted.

To aid in diagnosis, it is necessary to keep track of failed attempts in addition to the successful ones.

Solution

Configure PostgreSQL to produce audit records when unsuccessful attempts to access privileges occur.

All denials are logged if logging is enabled. To ensure that logging is enabled, review supplementary content APPENDIX-C for instructions on enabling logging.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_CD_PGSQL_V3R1_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

References: 800-53|AU-12c., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000172, Rule-ID|SV-233560r960885_rule, STIG-ID|CD12-00-005300, Vuln-ID|V-233560

Plugin: PostgreSQLDB

Control ID: 4bdf88c92e865e0dc3b02756a6779a13b38966ed069c0704980d5f568f3a4ceb