III - Administrative Public
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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WG520
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Web server and/or operating system information must be protected.
<VulnDiscussion>The web server response header of an HTTP response can contain several fields of information including the requested HTML pag...Rule Low Severity -
WA155
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Classified web servers will be afforded physical security commensurate with the classification of its content.
<VulnDiscussion>When data of a classified nature is migrated to a web server, fundamental principles applicable to the safeguarding of classi...Rule High Severity -
WA230
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The 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 -
WG275
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The web server, although started by superuser or privileged account, must run using a non-privileged account.
<VulnDiscussion>Running the web server with excessive privileges presents an increased risk to the web server. In the event the web server’s ...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 -
WG237
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
Remote authors or content providers must have all files scanned for malware before uploading files to the Document Root directory.
<VulnDiscussion>Remote web authors should not be able to upload files to the DocumentRoot directory structure without virus checking and chec...Rule Medium Severity -
WA000-WWA020
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The Timeout directive must be properly set.
<VulnDiscussion>These Timeout requirements are set to mitigate the effects of several types of denial of service attacks. Although there is s...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
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