Topic

Restricting privileges for server applications

Applicable to

all

History

Priority

must

Mar 2023

The accounts under which server applications run have limited access to their underlying server’s file system.

An existing control relating to DBMS software having limited access to non-essential areas of their underlying database server’s file system was expanded to cover all server applications having limited access to their underlying server’s file system.

2015

The account under which DBMS software runs must have limited access to non-essentialareas of the database server’s file system.