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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 have Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) that invoke OS shell programs disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Controlling what a user of a hosted application can access is part of the security posture of the web server. Any time a user...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • The web server must allow the mappings to unused and vulnerable scripts to be removed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Scripts allow server side processing on behalf of the hosted application user or as processes needed in the implementation of...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • The web server must have resource mappings set to disable the serving of certain file types.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Resource mapping is the process of tying a particular file type to a process in the web server that can serve that type of fi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • The web server must have Web Distributed Authoring (WebDAV) disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;A web server can be installed with functionality that, just by its nature, is not secure. Web Distributed Authoring (WebDAV) ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141

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  • The web server must protect system resources and privileged operations from hosted applications.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;A web server may host one too many applications. Each application will need certain system resources and privileged operatio...
    Rule Medium Severity

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