Details

Applications, including DBMSs, must prevent unauthorized and unintended information transfer via shared system resources. Permitting only DBMS processes and authorized, administrative users to have access to the files where the database resides helps ensure that those files are not shared inappropriately and are not open to backdoor access and manipulation.

Solution

Run these commands:

1) ‘chown enterprisedb ‘

2) ‘chgrp enterprisedb ‘

3) ‘chmod 700 ‘

(The default path for the postgresql data directory is /var/lib/ppas/9.5/data, but this will vary according to local circumstances.)

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_EDB_PGS_Advanced_Server_V2R1_STIG.zip

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: System and Communications Protection.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.

References

• 800-53|SC-4
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-001090
• CSCv6|3.1
• Rule-ID|SV-213607r508024_rule
• STIG-ID|PPS9-00-006100
• STIG-Legacy|SV-83571
• STIG-Legacy|V-68967
• Vuln-ID|V-213607

Source

• Tenable.com/audits