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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Disable URL Correction on Misspelled Entries

    The <code>speling</code> module attempts to find a document match by allowing one misspelling in an otherwise failed request. If this functionality...
    Rule Unknown Severity
  • Disable WebDAV (Distributed Authoring and Versioning)

    WebDAV is an extension of the HTTP protocol that provides distributed and collaborative access to web content. If its functionality is unnecessary,...
    Rule Unknown Severity
  • 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
  • Disable Plaintext Authentication

    To prevent Dovecot from attempting plaintext authentication of clients, edit <code>/etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-auth.conf</code> and add\or correct the f...
    Rule Unknown Severity
  • 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
  • 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

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