The access to the Tanium SQL database must be restricted. Only the designated database administrator(s) can have elevated privileges to the Tanium SQL database.

From Tanium 7.0 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-001814

SV-93355r1_rule The access to the Tanium SQL database must be restricted. Only the designated database administrator(s) can have elevated privileges to the Tanium SQL database.

Vulnerability discussion

After the Tanium Server has been installed and the Tanium databases created, only the Tanium Receiver, Tanium Module, and Tanium connection manager (ad sync) service needs to access the SQL Server database.

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Access the Tanium SQL server interactively. Log on with an account with administrative privileges to the server. Open SQL Server Management Studio and connect to a Tanium instance of SQL Server. In the left pane, click "Databases". Select the Tanium database. Click "Security". Click "Users". In the "Users" pane, review the roles assigned to the user accounts. (Note: This does not apply to service accounts.) If any user account has an elevated privilege role other than the assigned database administrators, this is a finding.

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Access the Tanium SQL server interactively. Log on with an account with administrative privileges to the server. Open SQL Server Management Studio. Connect to a Tanium instance of SQL Server. In the left pane, click "Databases". Select the Tanium database. Click "Security". Click "Users". In the "Users" pane, review the roles assigned to the user accounts. For any user accounts with elevated privileges, reduce the role assigned to a least privileged role.

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