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V-256637

CAT II (Medium)

Performance Charts must not enable support for TRACE requests.

Rule ID

SV-256637r888402_rule

STIG

VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance Perfcharts Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R1

CCIs

CCI-001312

Discussion

"TRACE" is a technique for a user to request internal information about Tomcat. This is useful during product development but should not be enabled in production. Allowing an attacker to conduct a TRACE operation against Performance Charts will expose information that would be useful to perform a more targeted attack. Performance Charts provides the "allowTrace" parameter as means to disable responding to TRACE requests.

Check Content

At the command prompt, run the following command:

# grep allowTrace /usr/lib/vmware-perfcharts/tc-instance/conf/server.xml

If "allowTrace" is set to "true", this is a finding.

If no line is returned, this is not a finding.

Fix Text

Navigate to and open:

/usr/lib/vmware-perfcharts/tc-instance/conf/server.xml

Locate and navigate to 'allowTrace="true"'.

Remove the 'allowTrace="true"' setting.

Restart the service with the following command:

# vmon-cli --restart perfcharts