# RA-05 (05) Privileged Access — NIST 800-53 Rev5 control

> FedRAMP Consolidated Rules for 2026 v2026.07.14.01 · updated 2026-07-14
> Canonical page: /control/ra-5.5

Canonical id: `ra-5.5` · family `RA`

> Implement privileged access authorization to [system components] for [vulnerability scanning activities].

_Control title and statement: NIST SP 800-53 Rev5 catalog (the pinned commit is in `/api` under `control_text`). The FedRAMP rules reference these controls by id only; everything below is what FedRAMP says about this id._

## Rev5 baseline membership

- certification class C
- certification class D

## Key Security Indicators that reach it

- `KSI-IAM-JIT` — Authorizing Just-in-Time (Identity and Access Management)
  A least-privileged, role and attribute-based, and just-in-time security authorization model is used and persistently reviewed for all user and non-user accounts and services.
- `KSI-IAM-SNU` — Securing Non-User Authentication (Identity and Access Management)
  Appropriately secure authentication methods are used and persistently reviewed for non-user accounts and services.

## FedRAMP guidance

{
  "guidance": [
    "Follow the FedRAMP Vulnerability Detection and Response and Vulnerability Evaluation and Reporting rules."
  ]
}