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VCST-70-000025 - 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 means to disable responding to TRACE requests.

Solution

Navigate to and open:

/usr/lib/vmware-sso/vmware-sts/conf/server.xml

Locate and remove the 'allowTrace='true'' setting.

Restart the service with the following command:

# vmon-cli --restart sts

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-256769r889277_rule, STIG-ID|VCST-70-000025, Vuln-ID|V-256769

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 3f30ac8fb901356217891063045e0675b599f8e98db13efb0bfc0a6fd84cda79