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Disable HTTP Digest Authentication

An XCCDF Rule

Description

The auth_digest module provides encrypted authentication sessions. If this functionality is unnecessary, comment out the related module:

#LoadModule auth_digest_module modules/mod_auth_digest.so

Rationale

Minimizing the number of loadable modules available to the web server reduces risk by limiting the capabilities allowed by the web server.

ID
xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_rule_httpd_digest_authentication
Severity
Unknown
Updated