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XCCDF
Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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Web Server
Secure Apache Configuration
Minimize Web Server Loadable Modules
httpd Core Modules
Disable CGI Support
Disable CGI Support
An XCCDF Rule
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Disable CGI Support
Unknown Severity
The
cgi
module allows HTML to interact with the CGI web programming language.
If this functionality is unnecessary, comment out the module:
#LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so
If the web server requires the use of CGI, enable
mod_cgi
.