The application server must prevent non-privileged users from executing privileged functions to include disabling, circumventing, or altering implemented security safeguards/countermeasures.
Overview
| Finding ID | Version | Rule ID | IA Controls | Severity |
| V-204784 | SRG-APP-000340-AS-000185 | SV-204784r961353_rule | CCI-002235 | medium |
| Description | ||||
| Preventing non-privileged users from executing privileged functions mitigates the risk that unauthorized individuals or processes may gain unnecessary access to information or privileges. Restricting non-privileged users also prevents an attacker, who has gained access to a non-privileged account, from elevating privileges, creating accounts, and performing system checks and maintenance. | ||||
| STIG | Date | |||
| Application Server Security Requirements Guide | 2025-02-11 | |||
Related Frameworks
3 paths across 3 frameworks
Related Frameworks
NIST 800-531 mapping
AC-6(10)
1.00
- DISA · 4 · disa_xccdf · related
- DISA · 2025-01-23 · disa_cci_list · equivalent
NIST 800-1711 mapping
3.1.7
1.00
- DISA · 4 · disa_xccdf · related
- DISA · 2025-01-23 · disa_cci_list · equivalent
- NIST · Rev 2 (Feb 2020, errata Jan 2021) · nist_800_171_app_d · equivalent
CCI1 mapping
CCI-002235
1.00
- DISA · 4 · disa_xccdf · related
Details
Check Text (C-204784r961353_chk)
Review application server documentation and configuration to verify that non-privileged users cannot access or execute privileged functions.
Have a user logon as a non-privileged user and attempt to execute privileged functions.
If the user is capable of executing privileged functions, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-4904r283000_fix)
Configure the application server to deny non-privileged users access to and execution of privileged functions.