V-259251

Discussion

The DOD standard for authentication is DOD-approved PKI certificates. Once a PKI certificate has been validated, it must be mapped to a DBMS user account for the authenticated identity to be meaningful to the DBMS and useful for authorization decisions.

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The Common Name (cn) attribute of the certificate will be compared to the requested database user name and, if they match, the login will be allowed.

To check the cn of the certificate, using openssl, do the following:

$ openssl x509 -noout -subject -in client_cert

If the cn does not match the users listed in PostgreSQL and no user mapping is used, this is a finding.

User name mapping can be used to allow cn to be different from the database user name. If User Name Maps are used, run the following as the database administrator (shown here as "enterprisedb"), to get a list of maps used for authentication:

$ sudo su - enterprisedb
$ grep "map" $<data directory>/pg_hba.conf

The default path for the postgresql data directory is /var/lib/edb/as<version>/data (PGDATA), but this will vary according to local circumstances.

With the names of the maps used, check those maps against the user name mappings in pg_ident.conf:

$ sudo su - enterprisedb
$ cat <data directory>/pg_ident.conf

If user accounts are not being mapped to authenticated identities, this is a finding.

If the cn and the username mapping do not match, this is a finding.