Detections
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1.28 VCPF-80-000140

Information

The vCenter Perfcharts service xpoweredBy attribute must be disabled.

GROUP ID: V-259096RULE ID: SV-259096r960963

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-perfcharts/tc-instance/conf/server.xml

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

Restart the service with the following command:

vmon-cli --restart perfcharts

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/23627

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-7, 800-53|CM-7a., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000381, Rule-ID|SV-259096r960963_rule, STIG-ID|VCPF-80-000140, Vuln-ID|V-259096

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: ce09f5869786a2029bb73e3d12a30e2239bbf77132ea778c5a0a46a660d5f791