VCUI-67-000024 - vSphere UI 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 the Security Token Service will expose information that would be useful to perform a more targeted attack. vSphere UI provides the 'allowTrace' parameter as a means to disable responding to Trace requests.

Solution

Navigate to and open /usr/lib/vmware-vsphere-ui/server/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_Y22M10_STIG.zip

Item Details

References: CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001312, Rule-ID|SV-239705r679221_rule, STIG-ID|VCUI-67-000024, Vuln-ID|V-239705

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: a0e97a71e3100aa86213cf8d2d2d5fa6a02decfb7591bbebcd03c74d310fd69c