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ISEC7 Sphere Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The LockOutRealm must be configured with a login failure count of 3.

    <VulnDiscussion>LockOutRealm prevents brute force attacks against user passwords. Removal of unneeded or nonsecure functions, ports, protocol...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Manager Web app password must be configured as follows: -15 or more characters. -at least one lower case letter. -at least one upper case letter. -at least one number. -at least one special character.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The shorter the password, the lower the number of possible combinations that need to be tested before the password is comprom...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The ISEC7 SPHERE must configure Enable HTTPS to use HTTP over SSL in Apache Tomcat.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without protection of the transmitted information, confidentiality and integrity may be compromised since unprotected communi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000383

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Stack tracing must be disabled in Apache Tomcat.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The default error page shows a full stack trace, which is a disclosure of sensitive information. Removal of unneeded or nonse...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000380

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Apache Tomcat shutdown port must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Tomcat uses a port (defaults to 8005) as a shutdown port. Someone could Telnet to the machine using this port and send the de...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000380

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The ISEC7 SPHERE must remove any unnecessary users or groups that have permissions to the server.xml file in Apache Tomcat.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Tomcat uses a port (defaults to 8005) as a shutdown port. Someone could Telnet to the machine using this port and send the de...
    Rule Medium Severity

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