DB2 must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to execute privileged activities or other system-level access occur.

From IBM DB2 V10.5 LUW Security Technical Implementation Guide

Part of SRG-APP-000504-DB-000355

Associated with: CCI-000172

SV-89261r1_rule DB2 must generate audit records when unsuccessful attempts to execute privileged activities or other system-level access occur.

Vulnerability discussion

Without tracking privileged activity, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one. System documentation should include a definition of the functionality considered privileged.A privileged function in this context is any operation that modifies the structure of the database, its built-in logic, or its security settings. This would include all Data Definition Language (DDL) statements and all security-related statements. In an SQL environment, it encompasses, but is not necessarily limited to:CREATEALTERDROPGRANTREVOKENote that it is particularly important to audit, and tightly control, any action that weakens the implementation of this requirement itself, since the objective is to have a complete audit trail of all administrative activity.To aid in diagnosis, it is necessary to keep track of failed attempts in addition to the successful ones.

Check content

Run the following SQL statement to ensure that an audit policy is defined upon the database: DB2> SELECT AUDITPOLICYNAME, AUDITPOLICYID FROM SYSCAT.AUDITUSE WHERE OBJECTTYPE IN (' ') If no rows are returned, this is a finding. Using the AUDITPOLICYID from above query find the details of audit policy: DB2> SELECT AUDITPOLICYNAME, SECMAINTSTATUS, SYSADMINSTATUS, OBJMAINTSTATUS, AUDITSTATUS, CONTEXTSTATUS, ERRORTYPE FROM SYSCAT.AUDITPOLICIES WHERE AUDITPOLICYID = If the values for SECMAINTSTATUS, OBJMAINTSTATUS, SYSADMINSTATUS, AUDITSTATUS and CONTEXTSTATUS are not 'B' (Both) or 'F' (Failure), or ERRORTYPE is not 'A' (Audit), this is a finding.

Fix text

Define an audit policy with the needed subset using the CREATE AUDIT POLICY SQL statement: DB2> CREATE AUDIT POLICY CATEGORIES SECMAINT STATUS BOTH, OBJMAINT STATUS BOTH, AUDIT STATUS BOTH, SYSADMIN STATUS BOTH, CONTEXT STATUS BOTH ERROR TYPE AUDIT To modify an existing audit policy, replace "CREATE" with "ALTER" in the preceding statement. Only the categories explicitly named in the statement will be affected. In this case, the changes take effect immediately. If CREATE was used above, apply the policy created above to the database: DB2> AUDIT DATABASE USING POLICY

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