Details

Limiting the accessibility of these objects will protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the MySQL logs.

Solution

Execute the following command for each log file location requiring corrected permissions: chmod 660 chown mysql:mysql Impact: Changing the permissions of the log files might impact monitoring tools which use a logfile adapter. Also the slow query log can be used for performance analysis by application developers.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://workbench.cisecurity.org/files/1619

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Audit and Accountability, Configuration Management.This control applies to the following type of system Windows.

References

• 800-53|AU-9(4)
• 800-53|CM-6b.

Source

• Tenable.com/audits