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The Security Token Service must not enable support for TRACE requests.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

"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 the Security Token Service will expose information that would be useful to perform a more targeted attack. The Security Token Service provides the "allowTrace" parameter as means to disable responding to TRACE requests.

ID
SV-256769r889277_rule
Version
VCST-70-000025
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Navigate to and open: 
 
/usr/lib/vmware-sso/vmware-sts/conf/server.xml 
 
Locate and remove the 'allowTrace="true"' setting.