MYS8-00-009900 - The MySQL Database Server 8.0 must provide an immediate real-time alert to appropriate support staff of all audit log failures.

Information

It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without a real-time alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability, and system operation may be adversely affected.

The appropriate support staff include, at a minimum, the Information System Security Officer (ISSO) and the database administrator (DBA)/system administrator (SA).

A failure of database auditing will result in either the database continuing to function without auditing or in a complete halt to database operations. When audit processing fails, appropriate personnel must be alerted immediately to avoid further downtime or unaudited transactions.

Alerts provide organizations with urgent messages. Real-time alerts provide these messages immediately (i.e., the time from event detection to alert occurs in seconds or less).

NOTE: Nessus has not performed this check. Please review the benchmark to ensure target compliance.

Solution

Configure the system to provide immediate real-time alerts to appropriate support staff when an audit log failure occurs.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Oracle_MySQL_8-0_V2R1_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

References: 800-53|AU-5(2), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001858, Rule-ID|SV-235176r961401_rule, STIG-ID|MYS8-00-009900, Vuln-ID|V-235176

Plugin: MySQLDB

Control ID: 89bcb27aa8ad211e1ea5c2a4bd0473752e58b136d1050bc9d8ae3d68247048a1