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V-259169

CAT II (Medium)

The vCenter PostgreSQL service must generate audit records.

Rule ID

SV-259169r1210428_rule

STIG

VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance PostgreSQL Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V2R3

CCIs

CCI-000172

Discussion

Under some circumstances, it may be useful to monitor who/what is reading privilege/permission/role information. Therefore, it must be possible to configure auditing to do this. Database management systems (DBMS) typically make such information available through views or functions. This requirement addresses explicit requests for privilege/permission/role membership information. It does not refer to the implicit retrieval of privileges/permissions/role memberships that PostgreSQL continually performs to determine if any and every action on the database is permitted. Satisfies: SRG-APP-000091-DB-000066, SRG-APP-000091-DB-000325, SRG-APP-000492-DB-000332, SRG-APP-000492-DB-000333, SRG-APP-000495-DB-000326, SRG-APP-000495-DB-000327, SRG-APP-000495-DB-000328, SRG-APP-000495-DB-000329, SRG-APP-000496-DB-000334, SRG-APP-000496-DB-000335, SRG-APP-000499-DB-000330, SRG-APP-000499-DB-000331, SRG-APP-000501-DB-000336, SRG-APP-000501-DB-000337, SRG-APP-000504-DB-000354, SRG-APP-000504-DB-000355, SRG-APP-000507-DB-000356, SRG-APP-000507-DB-000357

Check Content

At the command prompt, run the following commands:

# /opt/vmware/vpostgres/current/bin/psql -U postgres -A -t -c "SHOW pgaudit.log;"

If the "pgaudit.log" setting is not configured to "all, -misc, -read", this is a finding.

Fix Text

A script is included with vCenter to generate a PostgreSQL STIG configuration.

At the command prompt, run the following commands:

# chmod +x /opt/vmware/vpostgres/current/bin/vmw_vpg_config/vmw_vpg_config.py
# /opt/vmware/vpostgres/current/bin/vmw_vpg_config/vmw_vpg_config.py --action stig_enable --pg-data-dir /storage/db/vpostgres
# chmod -x /opt/vmware/vpostgres/current/bin/vmw_vpg_config/vmw_vpg_config.py

Note: If this has already been run previously, it does not need to be run again.

Navigate to and edit the /storage/db/vpostgres/stig.conf file.

Add or update the following settings:

pgaudit.log = 'all, -misc, -read'
pgaudit.log_catalog = off
pgaudit.log_parameter = off
pgaudit.log_relation = off
pgaudit.log_statement = off

Remove the following settings:

pgaudit.log_level = log

Restart the PostgreSQL service by running the following command:

# vmon-cli --restart vmware-vpostgres