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VCEM-70-000027 - ESX Agent Manager 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 ESX Agent Manager will expose information that would be useful to perform a more targeted attack. ESX Agent Manager provides the 'allowTrace' parameter as means to disable responding to TRACE requests.

Solution

Navigate to and open:

/usr/lib/vmware-eam/web/conf/server.xml

Locate and navigate to 'allowTrace='true''.

Remove the 'allowTrace='true'' setting.

Restart the service with the following command:

# vmon-cli --restart eam

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_VMW_vSphere_7-0_Y23M07_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY

References: 800-53|SI-11a., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001312, Rule-ID|SV-256699r888653_rule, STIG-ID|VCEM-70-000027, Vuln-ID|V-256699

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 1f996c0d9d5a913301a83d72dcdccb4a18e7803693627db3a03dc032e16e4785