controls::public role in the msdb database is not granted access to sql agent proxies

Overview

The public database role contains every user in the msdb database. SQL Agent proxies define a security context in which a job step can run.

Granting access to SQL Agent proxies for the public role would allow all users to utilize the proxy which may have high privileges. This would likely break the principle of least privileges.

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Benchmarks

This control is used in the following benchmarks:

Skipping

To deliberately skip this control (e.g. meaning don’t use Puppet to enforce this setting), we provide you with three ways:

1) Add mssql_secured::controls::public_role_in_the_msdb_database_is_not_granted_access_to_sql_agent_proxies: skip to your hiera data. This will skip this control for ALL databases.
2) Add mssql_secured::controls::public_role_in_the_msdb_database_is_not_granted_access_to_sql_agent_proxies::dbname: skip to your hiera data. This will skip this control for specified database only.
3) Add an entry with the content public_role_in_the_msdb_database_is_not_granted_access_to_sql_agent_proxies to the array value mssql_secured::skip_list in your hiera data.

Attributes

Attribute Name Short Description
exclude  
title The database to apply the control to.

title

The database to apply the control to.

All controls need an database to apply the control to. Here is a simple example:

mssql_secured::controls::control_name {'MSSQLSERVER':}

In this example, the string DB is the database to apply the control to.

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exclude

The objects to exclude from the control actions. Type: Array

Default:mssql_secured::lookup_setting('exclude', [])

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