The Cassandra Server must disable network functions, ports, protocols, and services deemed by the organization to be nonsecure, in accord with the Ports, Protocols, and Services Management (PPSM) guidance.

From vRealize - Cassandra Security Technical Implementation Guide

Part of SRG-APP-000383-DB-000364

Associated with: CCI-001762

SV-87313r1_rule The Cassandra Server must disable network functions, ports, protocols, and services deemed by the organization to be nonsecure, in accord with the Ports, Protocols, and Services Management (PPSM) guidance.

Vulnerability discussion

Use of nonsecure network functions, ports, protocols, and services exposes the system to avoidable threats.

Check content

Review the Cassandra Server to ensure network functions, ports, protocols, and services deemed by the organization to be nonsecure, in accordance with the Ports, Protocols, and Services Management (PPSM) guidance are disabled. Open the console to the server that Cassandra DB is hosted at and type: "find / | grep "cassandra.yaml"". Open "cassandra.yaml" file and review "start_rpc", "start_native_transport", and "native_transport_port" parameters values. If "start_rpc" is not set to "false" and "start_native_transport" is not set to "true", this is a finding. Run following command from the console of server, hosting Cassandra: "netstat -ntl | grep parameter value". Review output of this command record for the protocol and port Cassandra listens at. Obtain the document containing the list of approved ports, protocols, and services from https://disa.deps.mil/ext/cop/iase/ppsm/Pages/cal.aspx. If protocol and port Cassandra listens at are not approved, this is a finding.

Fix text

Configure the Cassandra Server to disable network functions, ports, protocols, and services deemed by the organization to be nonsecure, in accordance with the Ports, Protocols, and Services Management (PPSM) guidance. Open the console to the server that Cassandra DB is hosted at and type: "find / | grep "cassandra.yaml"". Open "cassandra.yaml" file and modify "start_rpc parameter" value to "false", "start_native_transport parameter" value to "true" and "native_transport_port" parameter value to one in the range of approved ports, according to https://disa.deps.mil/ext/cop/iase/ppsm/Pages/cal.aspx document (default port is 9042).

Pro Tips

Lavender hyperlinks in small type off to the right (of CSS class id, if you view the page source) point to globally unique URIs for each document and item. Copy the link location and paste anywhere you need to talk unambiguously about these things.

You can obtain data about documents and items in other formats. Simply provide an HTTP header Accept: text/turtle or Accept: application/rdf+xml.

Powered by sagemincer