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Cis Cassandra311 3.6

DevOps & Security
cis-cassandra311-3.6

Cis Cassandra311 3.6 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.

Review User-Defined Roles

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How to use this skill

Bring this guide into your coding agent with a prompt tailored to the tool you use.

  1. Open your project in Codex.
  2. Copy and paste the prompt below.
  3. Review files and risks before approving any action.
Prompt to paste
Inspect the Agent Skill at https://github.com/CyberStrikeus/CyberStrike/blob/HEAD/.cyberstrike/skill/CIS_benchmarks/Server_Software/Apache_Cassandra/CIS_Apache_Cassandra_3.11_Benchmark_v1.1.0/cis-cassandra311-3.6/SKILL.md and all supporting files. Report provenance, permissions, scripts, dependencies, and security risks. Propose an exact installation into .agents/skills/cis-cassandra311-3-6, but wait for my approval before writing files or running scripts.

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3.6 Review User-Defined Roles

Profile Applicability

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

Description

The MEMBER_OF column found in the system_auth.roles table shows roles granted to roles.

Rationale

The MEMBER_OF column shows whoever has roles granted to roles and depending on the role and the privileges grant to the role should be limited . Limiting the accounts that have the certain roles reduces the chances that an attacker can exploit these capabilities.

Audit

Execute the following SQL statement to audit this setting:

select role, can_login, member_of from system_auth.roles;

Looking for can_login which tells you that role can log into cassandra and member_of is when roles are granted to roles.

Remediation

Looking at those users from the query that have member_of that is NOT null, decide if that user truly needs that role, if not, for each user, issue the following SQL statement (replace <is_member> with the value of member_of returned by the query in the audit procedure)

Default Value

No roles are granted to other roles by default.

References

Not specified in the benchmark.

CIS Controls

  • v8: 16.11 Leverage Vetted Modules or Services for Application Security Components
  • v7: 14.7 Enforce Access Control to Data through Automated Tools

Profile

  • Level 1 | Manual