The application server must prevent non-privileged users from executing privileged functions to include disabling, circumventing, or altering implemented security safeguards/countermeasures.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-204784	SRG-APP-000340-AS-000185	SV-204784r961353_rule		Medium

Description

Preventing non-privileged users from executing privileged functions mitigates the risk that unauthorized individuals or processes may gain unnecessary access to information or privileges. Restricting non-privileged users also prevents an attacker, who has gained access to a non-privileged account, from elevating privileges, creating accounts, and performing system checks and maintenance.

STIG	Date
Application Server Security Requirements Guide	2025-02-11

Details

Check Text (C-4904r282999_chk)

Review application server documentation and configuration to verify that non-privileged users cannot access or execute privileged functions.

Have a user logon as a non-privileged user and attempt to execute privileged functions.

If the user is capable of executing privileged functions, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-4904r283000_fix)

Configure the application server to deny non-privileged users access to and execution of privileged functions.