Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) must be disabled.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-26287	WA00505 W20	SV-36611r1_rule	ECAN-1	Medium

Description
The Apache mod_dav and mod_dav_fs modules support WebDAV ('Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning') functionality for Apache. WebDAV is an extension to the HTTP protocol which allows clients to create, move, and delete files and resources on the web server. WebDAV is not widely used, and has serious security concerns as it may allow clients to modify unauthorized files on the web server. Therefore, the WebDav modules mod_dav and mod_dav_fs should be disabled.

Description

The Apache mod_dav and mod_dav_fs modules support WebDAV ('Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning') functionality for Apache. WebDAV is an extension to the HTTP protocol which allows clients to create, move, and delete files and resources on the web server. WebDAV is not widely used, and has serious security concerns as it may allow clients to modify unauthorized files on the web server. Therefore, the WebDav modules mod_dav and mod_dav_fs should be disabled.

STIG	Date
APACHE SERVER 2.0 for Windows	2014-12-05

Details

Check Text ( C-35706r1_chk )
Open the httpd.conf file. Search for uncommented LoadModule dav_module, LoadModule dav_fs_module, and LoadModule dav_lock_module directive statements. If any of these statements are found uncommented, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-30948r1_fix)
Edit the httpd.conf file and remove, or comment out, the following modules statements: dav_module, dav_fs_module, and dav_lock_module. Restart the server.