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VCUI-70-000026 - 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 web service will expose information that would be useful to perform a more targeted attack. vSphere UI provides the 'allowTrace' parameter as 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.

Restart the service with the following command:

# vmon-cli --restart vsphere-ui

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-256803r889408_rule, STIG-ID|VCUI-70-000026, Vuln-ID|V-256803

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: bbf5925f65aca4808a71857db89124581fe43c3e7439814745cc30d2fe05854f