The Idle Time-out monitor for each IIS 8.5 website must be enabled.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-76839	IISW-SI-000235	SV-91535r2_rule		Medium

Description
The idle time-out attribute controls the amount of time a worker process will remain idle before it shuts down. A worker process is idle if it is not processing requests and no new requests are received. The purpose of this attribute is to conserve system resources; the default value for idle time-out is 20 minutes. By default, the World Wide Web (WWW) service establishes an overlapped recycle, in which the worker process to be shut down is kept running until after a new worker process is started.

Description

The idle time-out attribute controls the amount of time a worker process will remain idle before it shuts down. A worker process is idle if it is not processing requests and no new requests are received. The purpose of this attribute is to conserve system resources; the default value for idle time-out is 20 minutes. By default, the World Wide Web (WWW) service establishes an overlapped recycle, in which the worker process to be shut down is kept running until after a new worker process is started.

STIG	Date
IIS 8.5 Site Security Technical Implementation Guide	2020-06-05

Details

Check Text ( C-76495r2_chk )
Follow the procedures below for each site hosted on the IIS 8.5 web server: Open the IIS 8.5 Manager. Click the Application Pools. Highlight an Application Pool to review and click "Advanced Settings" in the "Actions" pane. Scroll down to the "Process Model" section and verify the value for "Idle Time-out" is set to "20". If the "Idle Time-out" is not set to "20" or less, this is a finding. If the "Idle Time-out" is set to "0", this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-76495r2_chk )

Follow the procedures below for each site hosted on the IIS 8.5 web server:

Open the IIS 8.5 Manager.
Click the Application Pools.
Highlight an Application Pool to review and click "Advanced Settings" in the "Actions" pane.
Scroll down to the "Process Model" section and verify the value for "Idle Time-out" is set to "20".

If the "Idle Time-out" is not set to "20" or less, this is a finding.
If the "Idle Time-out" is set to "0", this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-83535r1_fix)
Follow the procedures below for each site hosted on the IIS 8.5 web server: Open the IIS 8.5 Manager. Click the Application Pools. Highlight an Application Pool to review and click "Advanced Settings" in the "Actions" pane. Scroll down to the "Process Model" section and set the value for "Idle Time-out" to "20" or less.