The number of allowed simultaneous requests must be set.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-2240	WG110 W22	SV-33105r2_rule		Medium

Description
Resource exhaustion can occur when an unlimited number of concurrent requests are allowed on a web site, facilitating a denial of service attack. Mitigating this kind of attack will include limiting the number of concurrent HTTP/HTTPS requests per IP address and may include, where feasible, limiting parameter values associated with keepalive, (i.e., a parameter used to limit the amount of time a connection may be inactive).

Description

Resource exhaustion can occur when an unlimited number of concurrent requests are allowed on a web site, facilitating a denial of service attack. Mitigating this kind of attack will include limiting the number of concurrent HTTP/HTTPS requests per IP address and may include, where feasible, limiting parameter values associated with keepalive, (i.e., a parameter used to limit the amount of time a connection may be inactive).

STIG	Date
APACHE 2.2 Site for Windows Security Technical Implementation Guide	2018-12-24

Details

Check Text ( C-33766r2_chk )
NOTE: This setting must be explicitly set. Locate the Apache httpd.conf file. If unable to locate the file, perform a search of the system to find the location of the file. Open the httpd.conf file with an editor such as notepad, and search for the following uncommented directive: MaxKeepAliveRequests Every enabled MaxKeepAliveRequests value needs to be 100 or greater. If any directive is less than 100, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-33766r2_chk )

NOTE: This setting must be explicitly set.

Locate the Apache httpd.conf file.

If unable to locate the file, perform a search of the system to find the location of the file.

Open the httpd.conf file with an editor such as notepad, and search for the following uncommented directive: MaxKeepAliveRequests

Every enabled MaxKeepAliveRequests value needs to be 100 or greater. If any directive is less than 100, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-29403r1_fix)
Set the MaxKeepAliveRequests directive to 100 or greater.