WG520 A22 - Web server and/or operating system information must be protected.

Information

The web server response header of an HTTP response can contain several fields of information including the requested HTML page. The information included in this response can be web server type and version, operating system and version, and ports associated with the web server. This provides the malicious user valuable information without the use of extensive tools.

Solution

Edit the /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf file and ensure the directive is set to Prod.

See Also

https://iasecontent.disa.mil/stigs/zip/U_Apache_2-2_UNIX_V1R11_STIG.zip

Item Details

References: CAT|III, Rule-ID|SV-36672r1_rule, STIG-ID|WG520_A22, Vuln-ID|V-6724

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 3491ca7df699ec749e120e01b7cc26196f61fdd2cfd647db05366808363f2b98