VCPF-70-000027 - 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 means to disable responding to TRACE requests.

Solution

Navigate to and open:

/usr/lib/vmware-perfcharts/tc-instance/conf/server.xml

Locate and navigate to 'allowTrace='true''.

Remove the 'allowTrace='true'' setting.

Restart the service with the following command:

# vmon-cli --restart perfcharts

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_VMW_vSphere_7-0_Y23M07_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY

References: 800-53|SI-11a., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001312, Rule-ID|SV-256637r888402_rule, STIG-ID|VCPF-70-000027, Vuln-ID|V-256637

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 23c834f9cb44ef3621ba1ea0da9c7a5d4e7a0aded1a1de6c99ab460b6ba355e6