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V-259183

CAT II (Medium)

The vCenter PostgreSQL service must log all connection attempts.

Rule ID

SV-259183r935453_rule

STIG

VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance PostgreSQL Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R1

CCIs

CCI-000172

Discussion

For completeness of forensic analysis, it is necessary to track successful and failed attempts to log on to PostgreSQL. Setting "log_connections" to "on" will cause each attempted connection to the server to be logged, as well as successful completion of client authentication. Satisfies: SRG-APP-000503-DB-000350, SRG-APP-000503-DB-000351, SRG-APP-000506-DB-000353, SRG-APP-000508-DB-000358

Check Content

At the command prompt, run the following command:

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

Expected result:

on

If the output does not match the expected result, 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

Restart the PostgreSQL service by running the following command:

# vmon-cli --restart vmware-vpostgres