controls::restrict access to syscat colgroupdist
Overview
Puppet controls are Puppet defined types that ensure a certain security control is implemented. Puppet changes the system in order to make the system compliant.
Description of the control
The SYSCAT.COLGROUPDIST
view contains the nth most frequent value of the column group or the nth quantile value of the column group. It is recommended that the PUBLIC
role be restricted from accessing this view.
Rationale
Any databases created without the RESTRICT
option automatically GRANT
the SELECT
privilege to PUBLIC
for SYSCAT
views. Therefore, it is strongly recommended to explicitly REVOKE
the SELECT
privilege on the SYSCAT.COLGROUPDIST
view from PUBLIC
to reduce risk to the organization’s data.
Skipping
To deliberately skip this control (e.g. meaning don’t use Puppet to enforce this setting), we provide you with two ways:
1) Add db2_secured::controls::restrict_access_to_syscat_colgroupdist: skip
to your hiera data. This will skip this control for ALL systems.
3) Add an entry with the content restrict_access_to_syscat_colgroupdist
to the array value db2_secured::skip_list
in your hiera data.
Benchmarks
This control is used in the following benchmarks:
- db11 CIS V1.0.0 - paragraph 4.2.5
Attributes
Attribute Name | Short Description |
---|---|
title | The database identifier to apply the control to. |
title
The database identifier to apply the control to.
All controls need an database identifier to apply the control to. Here is a simple example:
db2_secured::controls::control_name { 'db2inst1/MYDB':}
In this example, the string dbinst1
is the instance, the string MYDB
is the database to apply the control to.
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