IBM WebSphere Liberty Server Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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Maximum in-memory session count must be set according to application requirements.
Application management includes the ability to control the number of sessions that use an application by all accounts and/or account types. Limiting the number of allowed sessions is helpful in lim...Rule Medium Severity -
The WebSphere Liberty Server Quality of Protection (QoP) must be set to use TLSv1.2 or higher.
Quality of Protection in WebSphere Liberty specifies the security level, ciphers, and mutual authentication settings for the Secure Socket Layer (SSL/TLS) configuration. For Quality of Protection s...Rule Medium Severity -
Security cookies must be set to HTTPOnly.
Web applications use cookies to track users across requests. These cookies, while typically not sensitive in themselves, connect to the existing state on the back-end system. If an intruder were to...Rule Medium Severity -
The WebSphere Liberty Server must log remote session and security activity.
Security auditing must be configured in order to log remote session activity. Security auditing will not be performed unless the audit feature (audit-1.0) has been enabled. The security feature (ap...Rule Medium Severity -
Users in the REST API admin role must be authorized.
Users with console access and OS permissions to the folders where the Liberty Server is installed can make changes to the server. In addition, REST API calls that execute server management tasks ar...Rule High Severity -
The WebSphere Liberty Server must be configured to offload logs to a centralized system.
Log processing failures include, but are not limited to, failures in the application server log capturing mechanisms or log storage capacity being reached or exceeded. In some instances, it is pref...Rule Medium Severity -
The WebSphere Liberty Server must protect log information from unauthorized access or changes.
WebSphere Liberty provides the capability to encrypt and sign the log data to prevent unauthorized modification. - The security feature (appSecurity-2.0) must be defined in order to configure a u...Rule Medium Severity -
The WebSphere Liberty Server must protect log tools from unauthorized access.
Protecting log data also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Depending on the log format and application, system and application log tools may provid...Rule Medium Severity -
The WebSphere Liberty Server must be configured to encrypt log information.
Protection of log records is of critical importance. Encrypting log records provides a level of protection that does not rely on host-based protections that can be accidentally misconfigured, such ...Rule Medium Severity
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