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The DBMS must generate audit records when security objects are deleted.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-206626 SRG-APP-000501-DB-000336 SV-206626r961818_rule Medium
Description
The removal of security objects from the database/DBMS would seriously degrade a system's information assurance posture. If such an event occurs, it must be logged.
STIG Date
Database Security Requirements Guide 2024-06-20

Details

Check Text ( C-6886r291546_chk )
If the DBMS architecture makes it impossible for any user, even with the highest privileges, to drop its built-in security objects, and if there are no additional, locally-defined security objects in the database(s), this is not a finding.

Review DBMS documentation to verify that audit records can be produced when security objects are drop.

If the DBMS is not capable of this, this is a finding.

Review the DBMS/database security and audit configurations to verify that audit records are produced when security objects are drop.

If they are not produced, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-6886r291547_fix)
Deploy a DBMS capable of producing the required audit records when security objects are deleted.

Configure the DBMS to produce audit records when security objects are deleted.