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V-240263

CAT II (Medium)

Lighttpd audit records must be mapped to a time stamp.

Rule ID

SV-240263r879747_rule

STIG

VMware vRealize Automation 7.x Lighttpd Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R2

CCIs

CCI-001890

Discussion

If time stamps are not consistently applied and there is no common time reference, it is difficult to perform forensic analysis across multiple devices and log records. Time stamps generated by the web server include date and time. Time is commonly expressed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), a modern continuation of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), or local time with an offset from UTC. In order to ensure that Lighttpd is correctly logging timestamps, the accesslog.format setting must be enabled.

Check Content

At the command prompt, execute the following command:

grep 'accesslog.format' /opt/vmware/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf | grep -v ^#

If no value is returned or if the "accesslog.format" is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Navigate to and open /opt/vmware/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

Note: If the accesslog.format setting was commented out with a '#' sign, remove the '#' sign.

Configure the lighttpd.conf file with the following: 

accesslog.format = "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %b %>s \"%{User-Agent}i\" \"%{Referer}i\""