STIGQter: STIG Summary: MariaDB Enterprise 10.x Security Technical Implementation Guide Version: 2 Release: 5 Benchmark Date: 01 Apr 2026:

MariaDB must fail to a secure state if system initialization fails, shutdown fails, or aborts fail.

DISA Rule

SV-253708r961122_rule

Vulnerability Number

V-253708

Group Title

SRG-APP-000225-DB-000153

Rule Version

MADB-10-005000

Severity

CAT II

CCI(s)

• CCI-001190 - Fail to an organization-defined known-system state for the following failures on the indicated components while preserving organization-defined system state information in failure.

Weight

10

Fix Recommendation

If value of log_bin is "OFF", modify the MariaDB configuration file. This can be found in /etc/my.cnf.d/.

Optionally specify the location of the binary logs by specifying the full path for the binary logs.

[mariadb]
log_bin=mariadb_bin

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Verify InnoDB logging is configured.

As the database administrator, verify the following settings:

Note: If no specific directory is given before the filename, the files are stored in DATADIR.

MariaDB> SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES LIKE 'log_bin';

If value is "OFF", this is a finding.

Vulnerability Number

V-253708

Documentable

False

Rule Version

MADB-10-005000

Severity Override Guidance

Verify InnoDB logging is configured.

As the database administrator, verify the following settings:

Note: If no specific directory is given before the filename, the files are stored in DATADIR.

MariaDB> SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES LIKE 'log_bin';

If value is "OFF", this is a finding.

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Target Key

5475