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VCEM-80-000151 - The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must disable "ALLOW_BACKSLASH".
Information
When Tomcat is installed behind a proxy configured to only allow access to certain contexts (web applications), an HTTP request containing "/\../" may allow attackers to work around the proxy restrictions using directory traversal attack methods. If "allow_backslash" is "true", the "\" character will be permitted as a path delimiter. The default value for the setting is "false", but Tomcat must always be configured as if no proxy restricting context access was used, and "allow_backslash" should be set to "false" to prevent directory-traversal-style attacks. This setting can create operability issues with noncompliant clients.Solution
Navigate to and open:/etc/vmware-eam/catalina.properties
Update or remove the following line:
org.apache.catalina.connector.ALLOW_BACKSLASH=false
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_8-0_Y25M07_STIG.zip
Item Details
Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
References: 800-53|CM-6b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000366, Rule-ID|SV-259033r961863_rule, STIG-ID|VCEM-80-000151, Vuln-ID|V-259033
Plugin: Unix
Control ID: 7128428289cc23fd2b366dfeac20cd86bb2b7a087ed34465421e8937c3dc7665