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Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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WG385
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All web server documentation, sample code, example applications, and tutorials must be removed from a production web server.
Web server documentation, sample code, example applications, and tutorials may be an exploitable threat to a web server. A production web server may only contain components that are operationally n...Rule High Severity -
WG145
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The private web server must use an approved DoD certificate validation process.
Without the use of a certificate validation process, the site is vulnerable to accepting certificates that have expired or have been revoked. This would allow unauthorized individuals access to the...Rule Medium Severity -
WG237
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Remote authors or content providers must have all files scanned for malware before uploading files to the Document Root directory.
Remote web authors should not be able to upload files to the DocumentRoot directory structure without virus checking and checking for malicious or mobile code. A remote web user whose agency has a ...Rule Medium Severity -
WA000-WWA020
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The Timeout directive must be properly set.
These Timeout requirements are set to mitigate the effects of several types of denial of service attacks. Although there is some latitude concerning the settings themselves, the requirements attemp...Rule Medium Severity -
WA000-WWA022
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The KeepAlive directive must be enabled.
The KeepAlive extension to HTTP/1.0 and the persistent connection feature of HTTP/1.1 provide long lived HTTP sessions which allow multiple requests to be sent over the same connection. These requi...Rule Medium Severity -
WA000-WWA024
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The KeepAliveTimeout directive must be defined.
The number of seconds Apache will wait for a subsequent request before closing the connection. Once a request has been received, the timeout value specified by the Timeout directive applies. Settin...Rule Medium Severity -
WA000-WWA050
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All interactive programs must be placed in a designated directory with appropriate permissions.
CGI scripts are one of the most exploited vulnerabilities on web servers. CGI script execution in Apache can be accomplished via two methods. The first method uses the ScriptAlias directive to te...Rule Medium Severity -
WA000-WWA052
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The FollowSymLinks setting must be disabled.
The Options directive configures the web server features that are available in particular directories. The FollowSymLinks option controls the ability of the server to follow symbolic links. A symbo...Rule Medium Severity -
WA000-WWA054
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Server side includes (SSIs) must run with execution capability disabled.
The Options directive configures the web server features that are available in particular directories. The IncludesNOEXEC feature controls the ability of the server to utilize SSIs while disabling...Rule High Severity -
WA000-WWA056
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The MultiViews directive must be disabled.
Apache HTTPD supports content negotiation as described in the HTTP/1.1 specification. It can choose the best representation of a resource based on the browser-supplied preferences for media type, l...Rule Medium Severity -
WA000-WWA058
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Directory indexing must be disabled on directories not containing index files.
Directory options directives are directives that can be applied to further restrict access to file and directories. If a URL which maps to a directory is requested, and there is no DirectoryIndex ...Rule Medium Severity -
WA000-WWA060
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The HTTP request message body size must be limited.
Buffer overflow attacks are carried out by a malicious attacker sending amounts of data that the web server cannot store in a given size buffer. The eventual overflow of this buffer can overwrite s...Rule Medium Severity -
WA000-WWA062
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The HTTP request header fields must be limited.
Buffer overflow attacks are carried out by a malicious attacker sending amounts of data that the web server cannot store in a given size buffer. The eventual overflow of this buffer can overwrite s...Rule Medium Severity -
WA000-WWA064
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The HTTP request header field size must be limited.
Buffer overflow attacks are carried out by a malicious attacker sending amounts of data that the web server cannot store in a given size buffer. The eventual overflow of this buffer can overwrite s...Rule Medium Severity -
WA000-WWA066
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The HTTP request line must be limited.
Buffer overflow attacks are carried out by a malicious attacker sending amounts of data that the web server cannot store in a given size buffer. The eventual overflow of this buffer can overwrite s...Rule Medium Severity -
WA00500
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Active software modules must be minimized.
Modules are the source of Apache httpd servers core and dynamic capabilities. Thus not every module available is needed for operation. Most installations only need a small subset of the modules ava...Rule Medium Severity -
WA00505
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Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) must be disabled.
The Apache mod_dav and mod_dav_fs modules support WebDAV ('Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning') functionality for Apache. WebDAV is an extension to the HTTP protocol which allows client...Rule Medium Severity -
WA00510
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Web server status module must be disabled.
The Apache mod_info module provides information on the server configuration via access to a /server-info URL location, while the mod_status module provides current server performance statistics. Wh...Rule Medium Severity -
WA00520
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The web server must not be configured as a proxy server.
The Apache proxy modules allow the server to act as a proxy (either forward or reverse proxy) of http and other protocols with additional proxy modules loaded. If the Apache installation is not int...Rule Medium Severity -
WA00525
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User specific directories must not be globally enabled.
The UserDir directive must be disabled so that user home directories are not accessed via the web site with a tilde (~) preceding the username. The directive also sets the path name of the director...Rule Medium Severity -
WA00530
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The process ID (PID) file must be properly secured.
The PidFile directive sets the path to the process ID file to which the server records the process ID of the server, which is useful for sending a signal to the server process or for checking on th...Rule Medium Severity -
WA00535
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The ScoreBoard file must be properly secured.
The ScoreBoardFile directive sets a file path which the server will use for Inter-Process Communication (IPC) among the Apache processes. If the directive is specified, then Apache will use the con...Rule Medium Severity -
WA00540
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The web server must be configured to explicitly deny access to the OS root.
The Apache Directory directive allows for directory specific configuration of access controls and many other features and options. One important usage is to create a default deny policy that does n...Rule Medium Severity -
WA00545
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Web server options for the OS root must be disabled.
The Apache Options directive allows for specific configuration of options, including execution of CGI, following symbolic links, server side includes, and content negotiation. The Options directive...Rule Medium Severity -
WA00550
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The TRACE method must be disabled.
Use the Apache TraceEnable directive to disable the HTTP TRACE request method. Refer to the Apache documentation for more details http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#traceenable. The HT...Rule Medium Severity
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