V2R4 changes
VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance PostgreSQL STIG V2R4 (2026-09-30) replaced V2R3 (2026-07-01): 2 checks updated. It has 18 checks, against 18 in V2R3.
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Updated fields: Discussion 2
Updated in V2R4 (2)
V-259167CAT IIThe vCenter PostgreSQL service must enable "pgaudit" to provide audit record generation capabilities.Discussion
Discussion
Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident or identify those responsible for one.
Audit records can be generated from various components within the database management system (DBMS) (e.g., process, module). Certain specific application functionalities may be audited as well. The list of audited events is the set of events for which audits are to be generated. This set of events is typically a subset of the list of all events for which the system is capable of generating audit records.
DODDoW has defined the list of events for which the DBMS will provide an audit record generation capability as the following:
(i) Successful and unsuccessful attempts to access, modify, or delete privileges, security objects, security levels, or categories of information (e.g., classification levels);
(ii) Access actions, such as successful and unsuccessful logon attempts, privileged activities, or other system-level access, starting and ending time for user access to the system, concurrent logons from different workstations, successful and unsuccessful accesses to objects, all program initiations, and all direct access to the information system; and
(iii) All account creation, modification, disabling, and termination actions.
Organizations may define additional events requiring continuous or ad hoc auditing.
V-259176CAT IThe vCenter PostgreSQL service must encrypt passwords for user authentication.Discussion
Discussion
The DODDoW standard for authentication is DODDoW-approved PKI certificates.
Authentication based on User ID and Password may be used only when it is not possible to employ a PKI certificate and requires AO approval.
In such cases, database passwords stored in clear text, using reversible encryption, or using unsalted hashes would be vulnerable to unauthorized disclosure. Database passwords must always be in the form of one-way, salted hashes when stored internally or externally to the database management system (DBMS).
How these changes are found
Checks are matched across the two releases by V-number. A check counts as updated when DISA gave it a new rule revision (the r number in its SV-…_rule id) and its title, severity, check text, fix text, discussion, CCIs or other fields changed — the same comparison STIG Compare makes. Added checks are new V-numbers; removed checks are V-numbers V2R4 no longer has.
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