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MongoDB must require users to be individually authenticated before granting access to the shared accounts or resources.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-279399MD8X-00-012800SV-279399r1179524_ruleCCI-004045medium
Description
Individual authentication prior to shared group authentication mitigates the risk of using group accounts or authenticators.
STIGDate
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced 8.x Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-02-20

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 3 frameworks
SCF0 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.

IAC-02.1Group Authentication
1.00
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (70) 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-10Concurrent Session Control
1.00
AC-12Session Termination
1.00
AC-17(10)Authenticate Remote Commands
1.00
AC-2(1)Automated System Account Management
1.00
AC-2(10)Shared and Group Account Credential Change
1.00
AC-2(11)Usage Conditions
1.00
AC-2(2)Automated Temporary and Emergency Account Management
1.00
AC-2(3)Disable Accounts
1.00
AC-2(4)Automated Audit Actions
1.00
AC-3Access Enforcement
1.00

+60 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

CCI1 mapping
CCI-004045
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-279399r1179524_chk)

Check the MongoDB configuration file (default location /etc/mongod.conf) for a section named "security". If this section does not contain the subkey of "authorization" with a value of "enabled" as shown below, this is a finding. security: authorization: enabled

Fix Text (F-83857r1179523_fix)

Enable authorization for MongoDB Enterprise. Read the directions in the MongoDB documentation here: https://www.mongodb.com/docs/v8.0/tutorial/configure-scram-client-authentication/ Create the user administrator. Edit the MongoDB database configuration file (default location /etc/mongod.conf) to contain the following setting in the security section: security: authorization: enabled Stop/start (restart) the mongod or mongos instance using this configuration. Log on to MongoDB as an authorized user created by the user administrator and run the following command to verify the output is "true": db.getSiblingDB("admin").runCommand({getCmdLineOpts: 1}).parsed.security.authorization The output of this command must be "true".