Detections
Analytics
VCUI-67-000024 - vSphere UI 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. 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_Y23M07_STIG.zip
Item Details
Audit Name: DISA STIG VMware vSphere 6.7 UI Tomcat v1r3
Category: SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY
References: 800-53|SI-11a., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001312, Rule-ID|SV-239705r879655_rule, STIG-ID|VCUI-67-000024, Vuln-ID|V-239705
Plugin: Unix
Control ID: 01c53bcde7a3489cdac48924e91aa4a5fb03e6a161e2d0b2c40d239cc2ce0bf0