Performance Charts must not enable support for TRACE requests.
Severity | Group ID | Group Title | Version | Rule ID | Date | STIG Version |
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| medium | V-256637 | SRG-APP-000266-WSR-000160 | VCPF-70-000027 | SV-256637r888402_rule | 2023-02-21 | 1 |
| Description |
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| "TRACE" is a technique for a user to request internal information about Tomcat. This is useful during product development but should not be enabled in production. Allowing an attacker to conduct a TRACE operation against Performance Charts will expose information that would be useful to perform a more targeted attack. Performance Charts provides the "allowTrace" parameter as means to disable responding to TRACE requests. |
| ℹ️ Check |
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| At the command prompt, run the following command: # grep allowTrace /usr/lib/vmware-perfcharts/tc-instance/conf/server.xml If "allowTrace" is set to "true", this is a finding. If no line is returned, this is not a finding. |
| ✔️ Fix |
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| Navigate to and open: /usr/lib/vmware-perfcharts/tc-instance/conf/server.xml Locate and navigate to 'allowTrace="true"'. Remove the 'allowTrace="true"' setting. Restart the service with the following command: # vmon-cli --restart perfcharts |