Detections
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1.26 VCLU-80-000140

Information

The vCenter Lookup service xpoweredBy attribute must be disabled.

GROUP ID: V-259062RULE ID: SV-259062r960963

Individual connectors can be configured to display the Tomcat information to clients. This information can be used to identify server versions that can be useful to attackers for identifying vulnerable versions of Tomcat. Individual connectors must be checked for the xpoweredBy attribute to ensure they do not pass server information to clients. The default value for xpoweredBy is "false".

Solution

Navigate to and open:

/usr/lib/vmware-lookupsvc/conf/server.xml

Navigate to the <Connector> node and remove the "xpoweredBy" attribute.

Restart the service with the following command:

vmon-cli --restart lookupsvc

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/23617

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-7, 800-53|CM-7a., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000381, Rule-ID|SV-259062r960963_rule, STIG-ID|VCLU-80-000140, Vuln-ID|V-259062

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 50ee02fb8a5826d78d0764391ce9d4dc726a32a6f6055076a51477195d7c5404