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Web Server Security Requirements Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • The web server must not perform user management for hosted applications.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;User management and authentication can be an essential part of any application hosted by the web server. Along with authentic...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • The web server must not be a proxy server.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;A web server should be primarily a web server or a proxy server but not both, for the same reasons that other multi-use serve...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • The web server must provide install options to exclude the installation of documentation, sample code, example applications, and tutorials.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Web server documentation, sample code, example applications, and tutorials may be an exploitable threat to a web server becau...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • Web server accounts not utilized by installed features (i.e., tools, utilities, specific services, etc.) must not be created and must be deleted when the web server feature is uninstalled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When accounts used for web server features such as documentation, sample code, example applications, tutorials, utilities, an...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • The web server must provide install options to exclude installation of utility programs, services, plug-ins, and modules not necessary for operation.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Just as running unneeded services and protocols is a danger to the web server at the lower levels of the OSI model, running u...
    Rule Medium Severity

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