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APACHE 2.2 Server for UNIX Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • WG355

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • WG385

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The httpd.conf StartServers directive must be set properly.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;These requirements are set to mitigate the effects of several types of denial of service attacks. Although there is some lati...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • WA000-WWA028

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • All web server documentation, sample code, example applications, and tutorials must be removed from a production web server.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Web server documentation, sample code, example applications, and tutorials may be an exploitable threat to a web server. A pr...
    Rule High Severity
  • WG145

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The private web server must use an approved DoD certificate validation process.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the use of a certificate validation process, the site is vulnerable to accepting certificates that have expired or ha...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • WA000-WWA020

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Timeout directive must be properly set.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The Timeout requirements are set to mitigate the effects of several types of denial of service attacks. Although there is som...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • WA000-WWA022

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The KeepAlive directive must be enabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The KeepAlive extension to HTTP/1.0 and the persistent connection feature of HTTP/1.1 provide long lived HTTP sessions which ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • WA000-WWA024

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The KeepAliveTimeout directive must be defined.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The number of seconds Apache will wait for a subsequent request before closing the connection. Once a request has been receiv...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • WA000-WWA026

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The httpd.conf MinSpareServers directive must be set properly.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;These requirements are set to mitigate the effects of several types of denial of service attacks. Although there is some lati...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • WA000-WWA030

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The httpd.conf MaxSpareServers directive must be set properly.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;These requirements are set to mitigate the effects of several types of denial of service attacks. Although there is some lati...
    Rule Low Severity
  • WA000-WWA032

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The httpd.conf MaxClients directive must be set properly.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;These requirements are set to mitigate the effects of several types of denial of service attacks. Although there is some lati...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • WA000-WWA050

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group

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