Details

‘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 a way to disable responding to Trace requests.

Solution

Navigate to and open /usr/lib/vmware-perfcharts/tc-instance/conf/server.xml.

Navigate to and locate:
‘allowTrace=’true”

Remove the ‘allowTrace=’true” setting.

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: System and Information Integrity.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.

References

• 800-53|SI-11a.
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-001312
• Rule-ID|SV-239425r674998_rule
• STIG-ID|VCPF-67-000024
• Vuln-ID|V-239425

Source

• Tenable.com/audits