WA00535 A22 - The score board file must be properly secured.

Information

The ScoreBoardfile directive sets a file path which the server will use for Inter-Process Communication (IPC) among the Apache processes. If the directive is specified, then Apache will use the configured file for the inter-process communication. Therefore if it is specified it needs to be located in a secure directory. If the ScoreBoardfile is placed in a writable directory, other accounts could create a denial of service attack and prevent the server from starting by creating a file with the same name, and or users could monitor and disrupt the communication between the processes by reading and writing to the file.

Solution

The scoreboard file is created when the server starts, and is deleted when it shuts down, set the permissions during the creation of the file.

See Also

https://iasecontent.disa.mil/stigs/zip/U_Apache_2-2_UNIX_V1R11_STIG.zip

Item Details

References: CAT|II, Rule-ID|SV-33223r2_rule, STIG-ID|WA00535_A22, Vuln-ID|V-26322

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: ac416e640d14957aa0ad32e6f31df5d497d73df0b004e06a5927417bbb6b1610