VCEM-67-000025 - 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 to disable responding to Trace requests.

Solution

Navigate to and open:

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

Navigate to and locate:

'allowTrace='true''

Remove the 'allowTrace='true'' setting.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_VMW_vSphere_6-7_Y23M07_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY

References: 800-53|SI-11a., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001312, Rule-ID|SV-239396r879655_rule, STIG-ID|VCEM-67-000025, Vuln-ID|V-239396

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 06b2b9d1f02557b284b7cd4aa6667632aa49db18a75dd26f22edee0ce2029f70