III - Administrative Public
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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WA230
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Web site software used with the web server must have all applicable security patches applied and documented.
<VulnDiscussion>The IAVM process does not address all patches that have been identified for the host operating system or, in this case, the w...Rule Medium Severity -
WG355
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
A private web server’s list of CAs in a trust hierarchy must lead to an authorized DoD PKI Root CA.
<VulnDiscussion>A PKI certificate is a digital identifier that establishes the identity of an individual or a platform. A server that has a c...Rule Medium Severity -
WG385
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
All web server documentation, sample code, example applications, and tutorials must be removed from a production web server.
<VulnDiscussion>Web server documentation, sample code, example applications, and tutorials may be an exploitable threat to a web server. A pr...Rule High Severity -
WG145
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The private web server must use an approved DoD certificate validation process.
<VulnDiscussion>Without the use of a certificate validation process, the site is vulnerable to accepting certificates that have expired or ha...Rule Medium Severity -
WA000-WWA020
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Timeout directive must be properly set.
<VulnDiscussion>The Timeout requirements are set to mitigate the effects of several types of denial of service attacks. Although there is som...Rule Medium Severity -
WA000-WWA022
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The KeepAlive directive must be enabled.
<VulnDiscussion>The KeepAlive extension to HTTP/1.0 and the persistent connection feature of HTTP/1.1 provide long lived HTTP sessions which ...Rule Medium Severity -
WA000-WWA024
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The KeepAliveTimeout directive must be defined.
<VulnDiscussion>The number of seconds Apache will wait for a subsequent request before closing the connection. Once a request has been receiv...Rule Medium Severity -
WA000-WWA026
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The httpd.conf StartServers directive must be set properly.
<VulnDiscussion>These requirements are set to mitigate the effects of several types of denial of service attacks. Although there is some lati...Rule Medium Severity -
WA000-WWA028
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The httpd.conf MinSpareServers directive must be set properly.
<VulnDiscussion>These requirements are set to mitigate the effects of several types of denial of service attacks. Although there is some lati...Rule Medium Severity -
WA000-WWA030
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The httpd.conf MaxSpareServers directive must be set properly.
<VulnDiscussion>These requirements are set to mitigate the effects of several types of denial of service attacks. Although there is some lati...Rule Low Severity
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