VCPF-67-000024 - Performance Charts 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 Performance Charts will expose information that would be useful to perform a more targeted attack. Performance Charts provides the 'allowTrace' parameter as a way to disable responding to Trace requests.

Solution

Navigate to and open /usr/lib/vmware-perfcharts/tc-instance/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-239425r879655_rule, STIG-ID|VCPF-67-000024, Vuln-ID|V-239425

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 7f3ac2cab4cc551d4a81ebb361db57b4dd0b5976d8e2b183ee453d17ba137a5b