Details

A web server can provide many features, services, and processes. Some of these may be deemed unnecessary or too unsecure to run on a production DoD system.

VAMI can be configured to load any number of external modules, but only a specific few are provided and supported by VMware. Additional, unexpected modules must be removed.

Solution

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

Configure the ‘server.modules’ section to the following:

server.modules = (
‘mod_access’,
‘mod_accesslog’,
‘mod_proxy’,
‘mod_cgi’,
‘mod_rewrite’,
)
server.modules += ( ‘mod_magnet’ )

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_VMW_vSphere_6-7_STIG.zip

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Configuration Management.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.

References

• 800-53|CM-7a.
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-000381
• Rule-ID|SV-239724r679282_rule
• STIG-ID|VCLD-67-000016
• Vuln-ID|V-239724

Source

• Tenable.com/audits