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III - Administrative Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-APP-000435

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    Group
  • The web server must be tuned to handle the operational requirements of the hosted application.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;A Denial of Service (DoS) can occur when the web server is so overwhelmed that it can no longer respond to additional request...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000439

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    Group
  • The web server must employ cryptographic mechanisms (TLS/DTLS/SSL) preventing the unauthorized disclosure of information during transmission.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Preventing the disclosure of transmitted information requires that the web server take measures to employ some form of crypto...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000439

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    Group
  • Web server session IDs must be sent to the client using SSL/TLS.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The HTTP protocol is a stateless protocol. To maintain a session, a session identifier is used. The session identifier is a p...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000439

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    Group
  • Web server cookies, such as session cookies, sent to the client using SSL/TLS must not be compressed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;A cookie is used when a web server needs to share data with the client's browser. The data is often used to remember the clie...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000439

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    Group
  • Cookies exchanged between the web server and the client, such as session cookies, must have cookie properties set to prohibit client-side scripts from reading the cookie data.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;A cookie can be read by client-side scripts easily if cookie properties are not set properly. By allowing cookies to be read ...
    Rule Medium Severity

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