Detections
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VCST-67-000025 - The Security Token Service must not enable support for TRACE requests.
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 the Security Token Service will expose information that would be useful to perform a more targeted attack. The Security Token Service provides the 'allowTrace' parameter as a means to disable responding to Trace requests.Solution
Navigate to and open /usr/lib/vmware-sso/vmware-sts/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
Audit Name: DISA STIG VMware vSphere 6.7 STS Tomcat v1r1
References: CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001312, Rule-ID|SV-239676r679100_rule, STIG-ID|VCST-67-000025, Vuln-ID|V-239676
Plugin: Unix
Control ID: 218b60e0be80235abd29d8028e901bddcea4ba8ec2fa93ecbdeda11356aa02ba