Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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Minimize Modules for HTTP Basic Authentication
The following modules are necessary if this web server will provide content that will be restricted by a password. <br><br> Authentication can be p...Group -
Minimize Configuration Files Included
The <code>Include</code> directive directs <code>httpd</code> to load supplementary configuration files from a provided path. The default configura...Group -
Set httpd ServerTokens Directive to Prod
<code>ServerTokens Prod</code> restricts information in page headers, returning only the word "Apache." <br><br> Add or correct the following direc...Rule Unknown Severity -
Install the Samba Common Package
The <code>samba-common</code> package should be installed. The <code>samba-common</code> package can be installed with the following command: <pre>...Rule Medium Severity -
Minimize Various Optional Components
The following modules perform very specific tasks, sometimes providing access to just a few additional directives. If such functionality is not req...Group -
Use Appropriate Modules to Improve httpd's Security
Among the modules available for <code>httpd</code> are several whose use may improve the security of the web server installation. This section reco...Group -
Deploy mod_security
The <code>security</code> module provides an application level firewall for <code>httpd</code>. Following its installation with the base ruleset, s...Group -
Install mod_security
Install the <code>security</code> module: The <code>mod_security</code> package can be installed with the following command: <pre> $ sudo yum insta...Rule Unknown Severity -
Deploy mod_ssl
Because HTTP is a plain text protocol, all traffic is susceptible to passive monitoring. If there is a need for confidentiality, SSL should be conf...Group -
Enable Transport Layer Security (TLS) Encryption
Disable old SSL and TLS version and enable the latest TLS encryption by setting the following in <code>/etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/ssl.conf</code>: <...Rule Medium Severity
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