V-240069

Discussion

A web server can limit the ability of the web server being used in a DoS attack through several methods. The methods employed will depend upon the hosted applications and their resource needs for proper operation. An example setting that could be used to limit the ability of the web server being used in a DoS attack is to limit the amount of time that a half-open connection is kept alive.

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At the command prompt, execute the following command:

grep 'timeout client-fin' /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg

If the return value for "timeout client-fin" list is not set to "30s", this is a finding.