Details

Data used to authenticate, especially passwords, needs to be protected at all times, and encryption is the standard method for protecting authentication data during transmission. Data used to authenticate can be passed to and from the web server for many reasons.

Examples include data passed from a user to the web server through an HTTPS connection for authentication, the web server authenticating to a backend database for data retrieval and posting, and the web server authenticating to a clustered web server manager for an update.

Solution

Edit the <'INSTALL PATH'>confhttpd.conf file and set the value of ‘SSLVerifyClient’ to ‘require’.

Restart the Apache service.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Apache_Server_2-4_Windows_Y21M10_STIG.zip

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Identification and Authentication.This control applies to the following type of system Windows.

References

• 800-53|IA-5(1)(c)
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-000197
• Rule-ID|SV-214327r505936_rule
• STIG-ID|AS24-W1-000370
• STIG-Legacy|SV-102479
• STIG-Legacy|V-92391
• Vuln-ID|V-214327

Source

• Tenable.com/audits