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Cis Cassandra311 3.3

DevOps & Security
cis-cassandra311-3.3

Cis Cassandra311 3.3 is an Agent Skill for devops & security published in the CyberStrikeus/CyberStrike repository on GitHub: a SKILL.md instruction file an AI agent can load to do this task.

Ensure there are no unnecessary roles or excessive privileges

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3.3 Ensure there are no unnecessary roles or excessive privileges

Profile Applicability

  • Level 1 - Cassandra
  • Level 2 - Cassandra
  • Level 1 - Cassandra on Linux
  • Level 2 - Cassandra on Linux

Description

Verify each role is require and has only the privileges needed to do its job.

Rationale

Roles which are unneeded, have super user or other potentially excessive privileges may be an avenue for a hacker to gain access to or modify data in the database.

Audit

As a superuser, retrieve all roles:

list roles;

Retrieve all permissions for all roles

select * from system_auth.role_permissions;

If there are any unnecessary roles or roles with excessive privileges this is a finding.

Remediation

Remove any unnecessary roles and/or permissions in accordance with organizational needs.

Default Value

Only the cassandra role exists by default with superuser privileges.

References

  1. http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/cql/security.html

CIS Controls

  • v8: 6.8 Define and Maintain Role-Based Access Control
  • v7: 14.6 Protect Information through Access Control Lists

Profile

  • Level 1 | Manual