VCFL-67-000025 - vSphere Client 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 Security Token Service will expose information that would be useful to perform a more targeted attack. vSphere Client provides the 'allowTrace' parameter as a means to disable responding to Trace requests.

Solution

Navigate to and open /usr/lib/vmware-vsphere-client/server/configuration/tomcat-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-239766r879655_rule, STIG-ID|VCFL-67-000025, Vuln-ID|V-239766

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: d226087edae62c9e0bd9397e91d6689a199f81585e5e3bd21a300913d52dcf36