V-72941
Severity: Medium
Generated
2019-05-20 15:48:11.984914
Status
PostgreSQL must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to retrieve privileges/permissions occur.
NIST 800-53
STIG # | Description | Result |
---|---|---|
AU-12 | AU-12: Audit Generation | failed |
Guidance
Under some circumstances, it may be useful to monitor who/what is reading privilege/permission/role information. Therefore, it must be possible to configure auditing to do this. PostgreSQLs typically make such information available through views or functions. This requirement addresses explicit requests for privilege/permission/role membership information. It does not refer to the implicit retrieval of privileges/permissions/role memberships that PostgreSQL continually performs to determine if any and every action on the database is permitted. To aid in diagnosis, it is necessary to keep track of failed attempts in addition to the successful ones.
Check
Note: The following instructions use the PGDATA environment
variable. See supplementary content APPENDIX-F for instructions on configuring
PGDATA.
First, as the database administrator (shown here as “postgres”), create a
role ‘bob’ by running the following SQL:
$ sudo su - postgres
$ psql -c “CREATE ROLE bob”
Next, attempt to retrieve information from the pg_authid table:
$ psql -c “SET ROLE bob; SELECT * FROM pg_authid”
Now, as the database administrator (shown here as “postgres”), verify the
event was logged in pg_log:
$ sudo su - postgres
$ cat ${PGDATA?}/pg_log/
Fix
Configure PostgreSQL to produce audit records when unsuccessful attempts to access privileges occur. All denials are logged if logging is enabled. To ensure that logging is enabled, review supplementary content APPENDIX-C for instructions on enabling logging.
Test Results
Result | |
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Command: `sed -nre '/2019-05-16 08:11.*LOG:\s+starting tests for V-72941/,$p' /var/vcap/sys/log/postgresql/Thu.pg_log` stdout should match /ERROR:\s+permission denied for (relation|table) pg_authid/ | passed |
Command: `sed -nre '/2019-05-16 08:11.*LOG:\s+starting tests for V-72941/,$p' /var/vcap/sys/log/postgresql/Thu.pg_log` stdout should match /STATEMENT:\s+SET\ ROLE\ inspec_v72941_role;\ SELECT\ \*\ FROM\ pg_authid;/ | passed |
Code
control "V-72941" do
title "PostgreSQL must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to
retrieve privileges/permissions occur."
desc "Under some circumstances, it may be useful to monitor who/what is
reading privilege/permission/role information. Therefore, it must be possible
to configure auditing to do this. PostgreSQLs typically make such information
available through views or functions.
This requirement addresses explicit requests for privilege/permission/role
membership information. It does not refer to the implicit retrieval of
privileges/permissions/role memberships that PostgreSQL continually performs
to determine if any and every action on the database is permitted.
To aid in diagnosis, it is necessary to keep track of failed attempts in
addition to the successful ones."
impact 0.5
tag "severity": "medium"
tag "gtitle": "SRG-APP-000091-DB-000325"
tag "gid": "V-72941"
tag "rid": "SV-87593r1_rule"
tag "stig_id": "PGS9-00-005300"
tag "cci": "CCI-000172"
tag "nist": ["AU-12 c", "Rev_4"]
tag "check": "Note: The following instructions use the PGDATA environment
variable. See supplementary content APPENDIX-F for instructions on configuring
PGDATA.
First, as the database administrator (shown here as \"postgres\"), create a
role 'bob' by running the following SQL:
$ sudo su - postgres
$ psql -c \"CREATE ROLE bob\"
Next, attempt to retrieve information from the pg_authid table:
$ psql -c \"SET ROLE bob; SELECT * FROM pg_authid\"
Now, as the database administrator (shown here as \"postgres\"), verify the
event was logged in pg_log:
$ sudo su - postgres
$ cat ${PGDATA?}/pg_log/<latest_log>
< 2016-07-13 16:49:58.864 EDT postgres postgres ERROR: > permission denied for
relation pg_authid
< 2016-07-13 16:49:58.864 EDT postgres postgres STATEMENT: >
SELECT * FROM pg_authid;
If the above steps cannot verify that audit records are produced when
PostgreSQL denies retrieval of privileges/permissions/role memberships, this
is a finding."
tag "fix": "Configure PostgreSQL to produce audit records when unsuccessful
attempts to access privileges occur.
All denials are logged if logging is enabled. To ensure that logging is
enabled, review supplementary content APPENDIX-C for instructions on enabling
logging."
sql = postgres_session(PG_DBA, PG_DBA_PASSWORD, PG_HOST)
log_directory_query = sql.query('SHOW log_directory;', [PG_DB])
log_directory = log_directory_query.output
current_log_command = "ls -1t #{log_directory}/*.pg_log | head -1"
current_log = command(current_log_command).stdout.strip
control = File.basename(__FILE__, File.extname(__FILE__))
message = "starting tests for #{control}"
message_sql = "DO language plpgsql $$ BEGIN "\
"RAISE LOG '#{message}'; END $$;"
start = Time.now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')
get_logs = "sed -nre '/#{start}.*LOG:\\s+#{message}/,$p' #{current_log}"
create_role = 'CREATE ROLE bob;'
drop_role = 'DROP ROLE bob;'
command = 'SET ROLE bob; SELECT * FROM pg_authid;'
error = 'permission denied for relation pg_authid'
sql.query(message_sql, [PG_DB])
sql.query(create_role, [PG_DB])
sql.query(command, [PG_DB])
sql.query(drop_role, [PG_DB])
describe command(get_logs) do
its('stdout') { should match /ERROR:\s+#{error}/ }
its('stdout') { should match /STATEMENT:\s+#{Regexp.escape(command)}/ }
end
end