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VCPF-67-000024 - Performance Charts must not enable support for TRACE requests.

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Information

'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 a way to disable responding to Trace requests.

Solution

Navigate to and open /usr/lib/vmware-perfcharts/tc-instance/conf/server.xml.

Navigate to and locate:
'allowTrace='true''

Remove the 'allowTrace='true'' setting.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_VMW_vSphere_6-7_STIG.zip

Item Details

References: CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001312, Rule-ID|SV-239425r674998_rule, STIG-ID|VCPF-67-000024, Vuln-ID|V-239425

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: d4e595f42f7f85f1439688a1ecf793e1db9c1fb3b8e0e0abf0ad3d701870b20c