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VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance Perfcharts Security Technical Implementation Guide
SRG-APP-000266-WSR-000160
Performance Charts must not enable support for TRACE requests.
Performance Charts must not enable support for TRACE requests.
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Performance Charts must not enable support for TRACE requests.
Medium Severity
<VulnDiscussion>"TRACE" is a technique for a user to request internal information about Tomcat. This is useful during product development but should not be enabled in production. Allowing an attacker to conduct a TRACE operation against Performance Charts will expose information that would be useful to perform a more targeted attack. Performance Charts provides the "allowTrace" parameter as means to disable responding to TRACE requests.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>