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The vCenter Envoy and Rhttpproxy service log files permissions must be set correctly.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Log data is essential in the investigation of events. If log data were to become compromised, then competent forensic analysis and discovery of the true source of potentially malicious system activity would be difficult, if not impossible, to achieve. In addition, access to log records provides information an attacker could potentially use to their advantage since each event record might contain communication ports, protocols, services, trust relationships, usernames, etc. The web server must protect the log data from unauthorized read, write, copy, etc. This can be done by the web server if the web server is also doing the logging function. The web server may also use an external log system. In either case, the logs must be protected from access by nonprivileged users. Satisfies: SRG-APP-000118-WSR-000068, SRG-APP-000119-WSR-000069, SRG-APP-000120-WSR-000070

ID
SV-259161r960930_rule
Version
VCRP-80-000019
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

At the command prompt, run the following commands for rhttpproxy log files:

# chmod o-w <file>
# chown rhttpproxy:rhttpproxy <file>

or