The MySQL Database Server 8.0 must be able to generate audit records when privileges/permissions are retrieved.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-235105	SRG-APP-000091-DB-000066	MYS8-00-001800	SV-235105r960885_rule	2024-09-04	2

Description
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 (DBMSs) 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 the DBMS continually performs to determine if any and every action on the database is permitted.

Description

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 (DBMSs) 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 the DBMS continually performs to determine if any and every action on the database is permitted.

ℹ️ Check
Review the system documentation to determine if MySQL Server is required to audit the retrieval of privilege/permission/role membership information. Check if MySQL audit is configured and enabled. The my.cnf file will set the variable audit_file. To further check, execute the following query: SELECT PLUGIN_NAME, PLUGIN_STATUS FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PLUGINS WHERE PLUGIN_NAME LIKE 'audit%'; The status of the audit_log plugin must be "active". If it is not "active", this is a finding. Review audit filters and associated users by running the following queries: SELECT `audit_log_filter`.`NAME`, `audit_log_filter`.`FILTER` FROM `mysql`.`audit_log_filter`; SELECT `audit_log_user`.`USER`, `audit_log_user`.`HOST`, `audit_log_user`.`FILTERNAME` FROM `mysql`.`audit_log_user`; All currently defined audits for the MySQL server instance will be listed. If no audits are returned, this is a finding. To check if the audit filters that are in place are generating records when privileges/permissions are retrieved, run the following query: select * from mysql.proxies_priv; Review the audit log by running the Linux command: sudo cat <directory where audit log files are located>/audit.log\|egrep proxies_prim For example if the values returned by - "select @@datadir, @@audit_log_file;" are /usr/local/mysql/data/, audit.log ls -l /usr/local/mysql/data/audit.log The audit data will look similar to the example below: { "timestamp": "2020-08-19 21:03:39", "id": 13, "class": "general", "event": "status", "connection_id": 9, "account": { "user": "root", "host": "localhost" }, "login": { "user": "root", "os": "", "ip": "::1", "proxy": "" }, "general_data": { "command": "Query", "sql_command": "select", "query": "select * from mysql.proxies_priv\nLIMIT 0, 1000", "status": 0 } }, If the audit event is not present, this is a finding.

ℹ️ Check

Review the system documentation to determine if MySQL Server is required to audit the retrieval of privilege/permission/role membership information. Check if MySQL audit is configured and enabled. The my.cnf file will set the variable audit_file. To further check, execute the following query: SELECT PLUGIN_NAME, PLUGIN_STATUS FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PLUGINS WHERE PLUGIN_NAME LIKE 'audit%'; The status of the audit_log plugin must be "active". If it is not "active", this is a finding. Review audit filters and associated users by running the following queries: SELECT `audit_log_filter`.`NAME`, `audit_log_filter`.`FILTER` FROM `mysql`.`audit_log_filter`; SELECT `audit_log_user`.`USER`, `audit_log_user`.`HOST`, `audit_log_user`.`FILTERNAME` FROM `mysql`.`audit_log_user`; All currently defined audits for the MySQL server instance will be listed. If no audits are returned, this is a finding. To check if the audit filters that are in place are generating records when privileges/permissions are retrieved, run the following query: select * from mysql.proxies_priv; Review the audit log by running the Linux command: sudo cat <directory where audit log files are located>/audit.log|egrep proxies_prim For example if the values returned by - "select @@datadir, @@audit_log_file;" are /usr/local/mysql/data/, audit.log ls -l /usr/local/mysql/data/audit.log The audit data will look similar to the example below: { "timestamp": "2020-08-19 21:03:39", "id": 13, "class": "general", "event": "status", "connection_id": 9, "account": { "user": "root", "host": "localhost" }, "login": { "user": "root", "os": "", "ip": "::1", "proxy": "" }, "general_data": { "command": "Query", "sql_command": "select", "query": "select * from mysql.proxies_priv\nLIMIT 0, 1000", "status": 0 } }, If the audit event is not present, this is a finding.

✔️ Fix
If currently required, configure the MySQL Database Server to produce audit records when audit when privileges/permissions are retrieved. See the supplemental file "MySQL80Audit.sql".