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MariaDB must record time stamps, in audit records and application data, that can be mapped to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC, formerly GMT).

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-253730MADB-10-007600SV-253730r961443_ruleCCI-001890medium
Description
If time stamps are not consistently applied and there is no common time reference, it is difficult to perform forensic analysis. Time stamps generated by MariaDB must include date and time. Time is commonly expressed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), a modern continuation of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), or local time with an offset from UTC. Some DBMS products offer a data type called TIMESTAMP that is not a representation of date and time. Rather, it is a database state counter and does not correspond to calendar and clock time. This requirement does not refer to that meaning of TIMESTAMP.
STIGDate
MariaDB Enterprise 10.x Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-03-02

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 4 frameworks
SCF0 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (2) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

MON-07Time Stamps
0.50
SEA-20Clock Synchronization
0.50
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (26) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

AC-17(1)Monitoring and Control
1.00
AC-17(9)Disconnect or Disable Access
1.00
AC-2(4)Automated Audit Actions
1.00
AC-3Access Enforcement
1.00
AC-6(9)Log Use of Privileged Functions
1.00
AU-12Audit Record Generation
1.00
AU-12(3)Changes by Authorized Individuals
1.00
AU-14(1)System Start-up
1.00
AU-14(2)Capture and Record Content
1.00
AU-3Content of Audit Records
1.00

+16 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

NIST 800-1710 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (1) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

3.3.7
1.00
CCI1 mapping
CCI-001890
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-253730r961443_chk)

Check the current timezone value by running the following command as an administrative user: MariaDB> SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES LIKE '%zone%'; If time_zone = SYSTEM, and system_time_zone is not equal to UTC, this is a finding. If time_zone is not SYSTEM and is not UTC, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-57133r841714_fix)

On the OS command line run the following command to get the time zone the system is in: date | awk '{print $5;}' If the system is in UTC, to set the time zone for timestamps to UTC, modify the MariaDB configuration file located within /etc/my.cnf.d/ and set the variable time_zone to SYSTEM under the server section. Restart MariaDB Enterprise Server. Example: [server] Timezone = SYSTEM If the OS system timezone is not set to UTC, to set the time zone for timestamps to UTC, modify the MariaDB configuration file located within /etc/my.cnf.d/ and set the variable time_zone to UTC under the server section. Restart MariaDB Enterprise Server. Example: [server] Timezone = UTC