Microsoft SQL Server 2022 Database Security Technical Implementation Guide

Overview

VersionDateFinding Count (22)Downloads
12025-05-29CAT I (High): 4CAT II (Medium): 18CAT III (Low): 0
STIG Description
This Security Technical Implementation Guide is published as a tool to improve the security of Department of Defense (DOD) information systems. The requirements are derived from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53 and related documents. Comments or proposed revisions to this document should be sent via email to the following address: disa.stig_spt@mail.mil.
ClassifiedPublicSensitive
I - Mission Critical ClassifiedI - Mission Critical PublicI - Mission Critical Sensitive
II - Mission Support ClassifiedII - Mission Support PublicII - Mission Support Sensitive
III - Administrative ClassifiedIII - Administrative PublicIII - Administrative Sensitive

Findings - All

Finding IDSeverityTitleDescription
V-271118
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
SQL Server must integrate with an organization-level authentication/access mechanism providing account management and automation for all users, groups, roles, and any other principals.Enterprise environments make account management for applications and databases challenging and complex. A manual process for account management functi...
V-271119
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
SQL Server must enforce approved authorizations for logical access to information and system resources in accordance with applicable access control policies.Authentication with a DOD-approved PKI certificate does not necessarily imply authorization to access the DBMS. To mitigate the risk of unauthorized a...
V-271199
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
SQL Server must use NSA-approved cryptography to protect classified information in accordance with the data owner’s requirements.Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of using encryption to protect data. The application must implement cryptographi...
V-271201
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
SQL Server must implement cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized modification or disclosure of organization-defined information at rest (to include, at a minimum, PII and classified information) on organization-defined information system components.DBMSs handling data requiring "data at rest" protections must employ cryptographic mechanisms to prevent unauthorized disclosure and modification of t...
V-271121
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
SQL Server must protect against a user falsely repudiating by using system-versioned tables (Temporal Tables).Nonrepudiation of actions taken is required to maintain data integrity. Examples of particular actions taken by individuals include creating informati...
V-271122
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
SQL Server must protect against a user falsely repudiating by ensuring databases are not in a trust relationship.Nonrepudiation of actions taken is required to maintain data integrity. Examples of particular actions taken by individuals include creating informati...
V-271124
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
SQL Server must allow only the information system security manager (ISSM) (or individuals or roles appointed by the ISSM) to select which auditable events are to be audited.Without the capability to restrict which roles and individuals can select which events are audited, unauthorized personnel may be able to prevent or i...
V-271143
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
SQL Server must limit privileges to change software modules, to include stored procedures, functions, and triggers, and links to software external to SQL Server.If the system were to allow any user to make changes to software libraries, then those changes might be implemented without undergoing the appropriate...
V-271146
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
Database objects (including but not limited to tables, indexes, storage, stored procedures, functions, triggers, links to software external to SQL Server, etc.) must be owned by database/DBMS principals authorized for ownership.Within the database, object ownership implies full privileges to the owned object, including the privilege to assign access to the owned objects to ot...
V-271147
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The role(s)/group(s) used to modify database structure (including but not limited to tables, indexes, storage, etc.) and logic modules (stored procedures, functions, triggers, links to software external to SQL Server, etc.) must be restricted to authorized users.If SQL Server were to allow any user to make changes to database structure or logic, those changes might be implemented without undergoing the appropr...
V-271168
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
In the event of a system failure, hardware loss or disk failure, SQL Server must be able to restore necessary databases with least disruption to mission processes.Failure to a known state can address safety or security in accordance with the mission/business needs of the organization. Failure to a known secure s...
V-271169
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Database Master Key encryption password must meet DOD password complexity requirements.Weak passwords may be easily guessed. When passwords are used to encrypt keys used for encryption of sensitive data, the confidentiality of all data e...
V-271170
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Database Master Key must be encrypted by the Service Master Key, where a Database Master Key is required and another encryption method has not been specified.When not encrypted by the Service Master Key, system administrators or application administrators may access and use the Database Master Key to view s...
V-271171
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The certificate used for encryption must be backed up and stored in a secure location that is not on the SQL Server.Backup and recovery of the certificate used for encryption is critical to the complete recovery of the database. Not having this key can lead to loss ...
V-271172
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
SQL Server must isolate security functions from nonsecurity functions.An isolation boundary provides access control and protects the integrity of the hardware, software, and firmware that perform security functions. Se...
V-271173
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
Database contents must be protected from unauthorized and unintended information transfer by enforcement of a data transfer policy.Applications, including DBMSs, must prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources. Data used for the developm...
V-271176
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
SQL Server must check the validity of all data inputs except those specifically identified by the organization.Invalid user input occurs when a user inserts data or characters into an application's data entry fields and the application is unprepared to process ...
V-271179
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
SQL Server must provide nonprivileged users with error messages that provide information necessary for corrective actions without revealing information that could be exploited by adversaries.Any DBMS or associated application providing too much information in error messages on the screen or printout risks compromising the data and security...
V-271184
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
SQL Server must associate organization-defined types of security labels having organization-defined security label values with information in process, transit, or storage.Without the association of security labels to information, there is no basis for SQL Server to make security-related access-control decisions. Securi...
V-271186
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
SQL Server must enforce discretionary access control (DAC) policies, as defined by the data owner, over defined subjects and objects.DAC is based on the notion that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have discretion over who should be authorized to access the obj...
V-271188
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
Execution of stored procedures and functions that use execute as must be restricted to necessary cases only.In certain situations, to provide required functionality, a DBMS needs to execute internal logic (stored procedures, functions, triggers, etc.) and/or...
V-271195
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
SQL Server must enforce access restrictions associated with changes to the configuration of the database(s).Failure to provide logical access restrictions associated with changes to configuration may have significant effects on the overall security of the sy...