The vCenter Perfcharts service must disable "ALLOW_BACKSLASH".
An XCCDF Rule
Description
When Tomcat is installed behind a proxy configured to only allow access to certain contexts (web applications), an HTTP request containing "/\../" may allow attackers to work around the proxy restrictions using directory traversal attack methods. If "allow_backslash" is "true", the "\" character will be permitted as a path delimiter. The default value for the setting is "false", but Tomcat must always be configured as if no proxy restricting context access was used, and "allow_backslash" should be set to "false" to prevent directory-traversal-style attacks. This setting can create operability issues with noncompliant clients.
- ID
- SV-259100r961863_rule
- Version
- VCPF-80-000151
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Navigate to and open:
/usr/lib/vmware-perfcharts/tc-instance/conf/catalina.properties
Update or remove the following line: