Apache Server 2.4 Windows Server Security Technical Implementation Guide


Overview

Date Finding Count (54)
2020-09-25 CAT I (High): 4 CAT II (Med): 49 CAT III (Low): 1
STIG Description
This Security Technical Implementation Guide is published as a tool to improve the security of Department of Defense (DoD) information systems. The requirements are derived from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53 and related documents. Comments or proposed revisions to this document should be sent via email to the following address: disa.stig_spt@mail.mil.

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Findings (MAC III - Administrative Sensitive)

Finding ID Severity Title
V-214321 High The Apache web server must provide install options to exclude the installation of documentation, sample code, example applications, and tutorials.
V-214322 High Apache web server application directories, libraries, and configuration files must only be accessible to privileged users.
V-214359 High The Apache web server software must be a vendor-supported version.
V-214357 High All accounts installed with the Apache web server software and tools must have passwords assigned and default passwords changed.
V-214329 Medium Apache web server accounts accessing the directory tree, the shell, or other operating system functions and utilities must only be administrative accounts.
V-214328 Medium The Apache web server must perform RFC 5280-compliant certification path validation.
V-214360 Medium The Apache web server must alert the ISSO and SA (at a minimum) in the event of an audit processing failure.
V-214349 Medium The Apache web server must be configurable to integrate with an organizations security infrastructure.
V-214348 Medium The Apache web server must not impede the ability to write specified log record content to an audit log server.
V-214320 Medium The Apache web server must not be a proxy server.
V-214323 Medium The Apache web server must have resource mappings set to disable the serving of certain file types.
V-214325 Medium The Apache web server must have Web Distributed Authoring (WebDAV) disabled.
V-214324 Medium The Apache web server must allow the mappings to unused and vulnerable scripts to be removed.
V-214327 Medium The Apache web server must encrypt passwords during transmission.
V-214326 Medium The Apache web server must be configured to use a specified IP address and port.
V-214307 Medium The Apache web server must perform server-side session management.
V-214306 Medium The Apache web server must limit the number of allowed simultaneous session requests.
V-214342 Medium The Apache web server must set an inactive timeout for completing the TLS handshake
V-214309 Medium System logging must be enabled.
V-214308 Medium The Apache web server must use encryption strength in accordance with the categorization of data hosted by the Apache web server when remote connections are provided.
V-214347 Medium The Apache web server must use a logging mechanism that is configured to allocate log record storage capacity large enough to accommodate the logging requirements of the Apache web server.
V-214346 Medium An Apache web server that is part of a web server cluster must route all remote management through a centrally managed access control point.
V-214316 Medium The log data and records from the Apache web server must be backed up onto a different system or media.
V-214345 Medium Non-privileged accounts on the hosting system must only access Apache web server security-relevant information and functions through a distinct administrative account.
V-214344 Medium The Apache web server must be configured to immediately disconnect or disable remote access to the hosted applications.
V-214354 Medium The Apache web server must be tuned to handle the operational requirements of the hosted application.
V-214355 Medium The Apache web server cookies, such as session cookies, sent to the client using SSL/TLS must not be compressed.
V-214356 Medium The Apache web server must install security-relevant software updates within the configured time period directed by an authoritative source (e.g., IAVM, CTOs, DTMs, and STIGs).
V-214350 Medium The Apache web server must use a logging mechanism that is configured to provide a warning to the Information System Security Officer (ISSO) and System Administrator (SA) when allocated record storage volume reaches 75% of maximum log record storage capacity.
V-214351 Medium The Apache web server must generate log records that can be mapped to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) with a minimum granularity of one second.
V-214352 Medium The Apache web server must only accept client certificates issued by DoD PKI or DoD-approved PKI Certification Authorities (CAs).
V-214353 Medium The Apache web server must be protected from being stopped by a non-privileged user.
V-214310 Medium The Apache web server must generate, at a minimum, log records for system startup and shutdown, system access, and system authentication events.
V-214311 Medium The Apache web server must produce log records containing sufficient information to establish what type of events occurred.
V-214312 Medium An Apache web server, behind a load balancer or proxy server, must produce log records containing the client IP information as the source and destination and not the load balancer or proxy IP information with each event.
V-214313 Medium The Apache web server must use a logging mechanism that is configured to alert the (ISSO) and System Administrator (SA) in the event of a processing failure.
V-214314 Medium The Apache web server log files must only be accessible by privileged users.
V-214341 Medium The Apache web server must set an absolute timeout for sessions.
V-214330 Medium The Apache web server must separate the hosted applications from hosted Apache web server management functionality.
V-214331 Medium The Apache web server must invalidate session identifiers upon hosted application user logout or other session termination.
V-214318 Medium The Apache web server must not perform user management for hosted applications.
V-214319 Medium The Apache web server must only contain services and functions necessary for operation.
V-214340 Medium Debugging and trace information used to diagnose the Apache web server must be disabled.
V-214338 Medium The Apache web server must restrict the ability of users to launch denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against other information systems or networks.
V-214339 Medium Warning and error messages displayed to clients must be modified to minimize the identity of the Apache web server, patches, loaded modules, and directory paths.
V-214333 Medium The Apache web server must accept only system-generated session identifiers.
V-214336 Medium The Apache web server must be built to fail to a known safe state if system initialization fails, shutdown fails, or aborts fail.
V-214337 Medium The Apache web server document directory must be in a separate partition from the Apache web servers system files.
V-214334 Medium The Apache web server must generate unique session identifiers that cannot be reliably reproduced.
V-214335 Medium The Apache web server must generate unique session identifiers with definable entropy.
V-214332 Medium Cookies exchanged between the Apache web server and client, such as session cookies, must have security settings that disallow cookie access outside the originating Apache web server and hosted application.
V-214343 Medium The Apache web server must restrict inbound connections from nonsecure zones.
V-214315 Medium The log information from the Apache web server must be protected from unauthorized deletion and modification.
V-214358 Low The Apache web server must be configured in accordance with the security configuration settings based on DoD security configuration or implementation guidance, including STIGs, NSA configuration guides, CTOs, and DTMs.