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III - Administrative Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • WG385

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  • All web server documentation, sample code, example applications, and tutorials must be removed from a production web server.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Web server documentation, sample code, example applications, and tutorials may be an exploitable threat to a web server. A pr...
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  • WG145

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  • The private web server must use an approved DoD certificate validation process.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without the use of a certificate validation process, the site is vulnerable to accepting certificates that have expired or ha...
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  • 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.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Remote web authors should not be able to upload files to the DocumentRoot directory structure without virus checking and chec...
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  • WA000-WWA020

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  • The Timeout directive must be properly set.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;These Timeout requirements are set to mitigate the effects of several types of denial of service attacks. Although there is s...
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  • WA000-WWA022

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  • The KeepAlive directive must be enabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The KeepAlive extension to HTTP/1.0 and the persistent connection feature of HTTP/1.1 provide long lived HTTP sessions which ...
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  • WA000-WWA024

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  • The KeepAliveTimeout directive must be defined.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The number of seconds Apache will wait for a subsequent request before closing the connection. Once a request has been receiv...
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  • WA000-WWA050

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  • All interactive programs must be placed in a designated directory with appropriate permissions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;CGI scripts are one of the most exploited vulnerabilities on web servers. CGI script execution in Apache can be accomplished...
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  • WA000-WWA052

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  • The FollowSymLinks setting must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The Options directive configures the web server features that are available in particular directories. The FollowSymLinks opt...
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  • WA000-WWA054

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  • Server side includes (SSIs) must run with execution capability disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The Options directive configures the web server features that are available in particular directories. The IncludesNOEXEC fe...
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  • WA000-WWA056

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  • The MultiViews directive must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Apache HTTPD supports content negotiation as described in the HTTP/1.1 specification. It can choose the best representation o...
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  • WA000-WWA058

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  • Directory indexing must be disabled on directories not containing index files.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Directory options directives are directives that can be applied to further restrict access to file and directories. If a URL...
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  • WA000-WWA060

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  • The HTTP request message body size must be limited.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Buffer overflow attacks are carried out by a malicious attacker sending amounts of data that the web server cannot store in a...
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  • WA000-WWA062

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  • The HTTP request header fields must be limited.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Buffer overflow attacks are carried out by a malicious attacker sending amounts of data that the web server cannot store in a...
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  • WA000-WWA064

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  • The HTTP request header field size must be limited.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Buffer overflow attacks are carried out by a malicious attacker sending amounts of data that the web server cannot store in a...
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  • WA000-WWA066

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  • The HTTP request line must be limited.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Buffer overflow attacks are carried out by a malicious attacker sending amounts of data that the web server cannot store in a...
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  • WA00500

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  • Active software modules must be minimized.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Modules are the source of Apache httpd servers core and dynamic capabilities. Thus not every module available is needed for o...
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  • WA00505

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  • Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The Apache mod_dav and mod_dav_fs modules support WebDAV ('Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning') functionality for...
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  • WA00510

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  • Web server status module must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The Apache mod_info module provides information on the server configuration via access to a /server-info URL location, while ...
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  • WA00520

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  • The web server must not be configured as a proxy server.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The Apache proxy modules allow the server to act as a proxy (either forward or reverse proxy) of http and other protocols wit...
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  • WA00525

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  • User specific directories must not be globally enabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The UserDir directive must be disabled so that user home directories are not accessed via the web site with a tilde (~) prece...
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  • WA00530

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  • The process ID (PID) file must be properly secured.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The PidFile directive sets the path to the process ID file to which the server records the process ID of the server, which is...
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  • WA00535

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  • The ScoreBoard file must be properly secured.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The ScoreBoardFile directive sets a file path which the server will use for Inter-Process Communication (IPC) among the Apach...
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  • WA00540

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  • The web server must be configured to explicitly deny access to the OS root.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The Apache Directory directive allows for directory specific configuration of access controls and many other features and opt...
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  • WA00545

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  • Web server options for the OS root must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The Apache Options directive allows for specific configuration of options, including execution of CGI, following symbolic lin...
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  • WA00550

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  • The TRACE method must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt; Use the Apache TraceEnable directive to disable the HTTP TRACE request method. Refer to the Apache documentation for more de...
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