TMA-CASSANDRA-3.8
Review Superuser/Admin Roles
Description
The IS_SUPERUSER privilege found in the system_auth.roles table governs who can control the entire Cassandra database and all of its data contained within.
How it is checked
Audit method: Manual review
This recommendation cannot be checked automatically. A scan lists it with these instructions when you pass --include-manual.
Execute the following SQL statement to audit this setting: select role, is_superuser from system_auth.roles; Looking for is_superuser = True
How it is fixed
Fix method: Guidance or infrastructure patch
Perform the following steps to remediate this setting: Looking at those users from the query that have is_superuser = True, decide if that user truly needs that role, if not, for each user, issue the following SQL statement (replace <role> with the role name from the query): alter role <role> with superuser=false;
Properties
- Operating systems
- Any
- Tags
- cassandraprivileges
- Reference
- CIS Apache Cassandra 5.0 Benchmark v1.1.0 - 3.8 Review Superuser/Admin Roles