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MD8X-00-002300 - MongoDB must protect its audit features from unauthorized access, modification, and removal.

Information

Protecting audit data also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Therefore, protecting audit tools is necessary to prevent unauthorized operation on audit data.

Applications providing tools to interface with audit data will leverage user permissions and roles identifying the user accessing the tools and the corresponding rights the user enjoys in order to make access decisions regarding the deletion of audit tools.

Audit tools include, but are not limited to, vendor-provided and open source audit tools needed to successfully view and manipulate audit information system activity and records. Audit tools include custom queries and report generators.

Satisfies: SRG-APP-000123-DB-000204, SRG-APP-000121-DB-000202, SRG-APP-000122-DB-000203

Solution

Run these commands:

"chown mongod <MongoDB configuration file>"
"chgrp mongod <MongoDB configuration file>"
"chmod 600 <MongoDB configuration file>"

Note: The name and location for the MongoDB configuration file will vary according to local circumstances. The default name and location is /etc/mongod.conf.

Using the default name and location the commands would be:

$ chown mongod /etc/mongod.conf
$ chgrp mongod /etc/mongod.conf
$ chmod 600 /etc/mongod.conf

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_MDB_Enterprise_Advanced_8-x_V1R1_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

References: 800-53|AU-9, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001493, CCI|CCI-001494, CCI|CCI-001495, Rule-ID|SV-279337r1179178_rule, STIG-ID|MD8X-00-002300, Vuln-ID|V-279337

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: b9a83ddaca4e72c050322071e0e8dc01f206985d081c0f68a6eaf71c276da541