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4.2.11 Restrict Access to SYSCAT.DBAUTH

Information

The SYSCAT.DBAUTH view contains information on authorities granted to users or groups of users. It is recommended that the PUBLIC role be restricted from accessing this view.

Rationale:

This view contains all the grants in the database and may be used as an attack vector.

Solution

Perform the following to revoke access from PUBLIC.

Connect to the Db2 database.

db2 => connect to <dbname>

Run the following command:

db2 => REVOKE SELECT ON SYSCAT.DBAUTH FROM PUBLIC

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/23492

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL, MEDIA PROTECTION

References: 800-53|AC-3, 800-53|AC-5, 800-53|AC-6, 800-53|MP-2, CSCv7|14.6

Plugin: IBM_DB2DB

Control ID: 462258980f4a91ec605904c92cf85b1840263e1070c165e1e986e7265f9e33b4