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IBM WebSphere Liberty Server Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-APP-000014-AS-000009

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  • The WebSphere Liberty Server Quality of Protection (QoP) must be set to use TLSv1.2 or higher.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Quality of Protection in WebSphere Liberty specifies the security level, ciphers, and mutual authentication settings for the ...
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  • SRG-APP-000015-AS-000010

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  • Security cookies must be set to HTTPOnly.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Web applications use cookies to track users across requests. These cookies, while typically not sensitive in themselves, conn...
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  • SRG-APP-000016-AS-000013

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  • The WebSphere Liberty Server must log remote session and security activity.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Security auditing must be configured in order to log remote session activity. Security auditing will not be performed unless ...
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  • SRG-APP-000033-AS-000024

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  • Users in the REST API admin role must be authorized.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Users with console access and OS permissions to the folders where the Liberty Server is installed can make changes to the ser...
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  • SRG-APP-000109-AS-000070

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  • The WebSphere Liberty Server must be configured to offload logs to a centralized system.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Log processing failures include, but are not limited to, failures in the application server log capturing mechanisms or log s...
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  • SRG-APP-000119-AS-000079

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  • The WebSphere Liberty Server must protect log information from unauthorized access or changes.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;WebSphere Liberty provides the capability to encrypt and sign the log data to prevent unauthorized modification. - The secu...
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  • SRG-APP-000121-AS-000081

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  • The WebSphere Liberty Server must protect log tools from unauthorized access.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Protecting log data also includes identifying and protecting the tools used to view and manipulate log data. Depending on the...
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  • SRG-APP-000126-AS-000085

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  • The WebSphere Liberty Server must be configured to encrypt log information.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Protection of log records is of critical importance. Encrypting log records provides a level of protection that does not rely...
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  • SRG-APP-000133-AS-000092

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  • The WebSphere Liberty Server must protect software libraries from unauthorized access.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Application servers have the ability to specify that the hosted applications use shared libraries. The application server mus...
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  • SRG-APP-000142-AS-000014

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  • The WebSphere Liberty Server must prohibit or restrict the use of nonsecure ports, protocols, modules, and/or services as defined in the PPSM CAL and vulnerability assessments.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Some networking protocols may not meet organizational security requirements to protect data and components. Application serv...
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  • SRG-APP-000148-AS-000101

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  • The WebSphere Liberty Server must use an LDAP user registry.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To ensure accountability and prevent unauthorized access, application server users must be uniquely identified and authentica...
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  • SRG-APP-000148-AS-000101

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  • Basic Authentication must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Basic authentication does not use a centralized user store like LDAP. Not using a centralized user store complicates user man...
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  • SRG-APP-000149-AS-000102

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  • Multifactor authentication for network access to privileged accounts must be used.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Multifactor authentication creates a layered defense and makes it more difficult for an unauthorized person to access the app...
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  • SRG-APP-000171-AS-000119

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  • The WebSphere Liberty Server must store only encrypted representations of user passwords.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;WebSphere Liberty can either provide a local account store or integrate with enterprise account stores such as LDAP directori...
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  • SRG-APP-000172-AS-000120

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  • The WebSphere Liberty Server must use TLS-enabled LDAP.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Passwords need to be protected at all times, and encryption is the standard method for protecting passwords during transmissi...
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  • SRG-APP-000177-AS-000126

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  • The WebSphere Liberty Server must use DoD-issued/signed certificates.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The cornerstone of PKI is the private key used to encrypt or digitally sign information. The key by itself is a cryptographic...
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  • SRG-APP-000179-AS-000129

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  • The WebSphere Liberty Server must use FIPS 140-2 approved encryption modules when authenticating users and processes.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Application servers must use and meet requirements of the DoD Enterprise PKI infrastructure for application authentication. E...
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  • SRG-APP-000295-AS-000263

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  • HTTP session timeout must be configured.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;An attacker can take advantage of user sessions that are left open, thus bypassing the user authentication process. To thwar...
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  • SRG-APP-000315-AS-000094

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  • Application security must be enabled on the WebSphere Liberty Server.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Application security enables security for the applications in the environment. This type of security provides application iso...
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  • SRG-APP-000340-AS-000185

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  • Users in a reader-role must be authorized.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The reader role is a management role that allows read-only access to select administrative REST APIs as well as the Admin Cen...
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  • SRG-APP-000357-AS-000038

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  • The WebSphere Liberty Server must allocate JVM log record storage capacity in accordance with organization-defined log record storage requirements.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;JVM logs are logs used to store application and runtime related events, rather than audit related events. They are mainly use...
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  • SRG-APP-000380-AS-000088

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  • The server.xml file must be protected from unauthorized modification.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When dealing with access restrictions pertaining to change control, it should be noted that any changes to the software, and/...
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  • SRG-APP-000400-AS-000246

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  • The WebSphere Liberty Server must prohibit the use of cached authenticators after an organization-defined time period.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Larger authentication cache timeout values can increase security risks. For example, a user who is revoked can still log in b...
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  • SRG-APP-000428-AS-000265

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  • The WebSphere Liberty Server LTPA keys password must be changed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The default location of the automatically generated Lightweight Third Party Authentication (LTPA) keys file is ${server.outpu...
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  • SRG-APP-000439-AS-000274

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  • The WebSphere Liberty Server must remove all export ciphers to protect the confidentiality and integrity of transmitted information.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Export grade encryption suites are not strong and do not meet DoD requirements. The encryption for the session becomes easy f...
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