STIGQter: STIG Summary: Tanium 7.3 Security Technical Implementation Guide Version: 2 Release: 1 Benchmark Date: 22 Jan 2021:

The Tanium Server installers account database permissions must be reduced to an appropriate level.

DISA Rule

SV-234074r612749_rule

Vulnerability Number

V-234074

Group Title

SRG-APP-000381

Rule Version

TANS-DB-000004

Severity

CAT II

CCI(s)

• CCI-001814 - The Information system supports auditing of the enforcement actions.

Weight

10

Fix Recommendation

Access the Tanium SQL server interactively.

Log on to the server with an account that has administrative privileges.

Open SQL Server Management Studio.

Connect to Tanium instance of SQL Server.

In the left pane, click "Databases".

Select the Tanium database.

Click "Security".

Click "Users".

In the "Users" pane, right-click the Tanium Server service user account.

On the shortcut menu, click "Properties".

Under Database role membership, change role from "sysadmin" to "db_owner".

Click "OK".

If using Postgres:

Configure PostgreSQL to enforce access restrictions associated with changes to the configuration of PostgreSQL or database(s).

Use ALTER ROLE to remove accesses from roles:

$ psql -c "ALTER ROLE <role_name> NOSUPERUSER"

Check Contents

Access the Tanium SQL server interactively.

Log on to the server with an account that has administrative privileges.

Open SQL Server Management Studio.

Connect to 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 role assigned to the Tanium Server service user account.

If the role assigned to the Tanium Server service account is not "db_owner", this is a finding.

If using Postgres:

Only owners of objects can change them. To view all functions, triggers, and trigger procedures, their ownership and source, as the database administrator (shown here as "postgres") run the following SQL:

$ sudo su - postgres
$ psql -x -c "\df+"

Vulnerability Number

V-234074

Documentable

False

Rule Version

TANS-DB-000004

Severity Override Guidance

Access the Tanium SQL server interactively.

Log on to the server with an account that has administrative privileges.

Open SQL Server Management Studio.

Connect to 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 role assigned to the Tanium Server service user account.

If the role assigned to the Tanium Server service account is not "db_owner", this is a finding.

If using Postgres:

Only owners of objects can change them. To view all functions, triggers, and trigger procedures, their ownership and source, as the database administrator (shown here as "postgres") run the following SQL:

$ sudo su - postgres
$ psql -x -c "\df+"

Check Content Reference

M

Target Key

5259

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