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Microsoft IIS 10.0 Server Security Technical Implementation Guide


Overview

Date Finding Count (45)
2023-03-08 CAT I (High): 4 CAT II (Med): 38 CAT III (Low): 3
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 I - Mission Critical Sensitive)

Finding ID Severity Title
V-218823 High All accounts installed with the IIS 10.0 web server software and tools must have passwords assigned and default passwords changed.
V-218795 High All IIS 10.0 web server sample code, example applications, and tutorials must be removed from a production IIS 10.0 server.
V-218821 High An IIS 10.0 web server must maintain the confidentiality of controlled information during transmission through the use of an approved Transport Layer Security (TLS) version.
V-218802 High IIS 10.0 Web server accounts accessing the directory tree, the shell, or other operating system functions and utilities must only be administrative accounts.
V-228572 Medium An IIS Server configured to be a SMTP relay must require authentication.
V-218789 Medium The IIS 10.0 web server must produce log records containing sufficient information to establish the identity of any user/subject or process associated with an event.
V-218788 Medium The IIS 10.0 web server must produce log records that contain sufficient information to establish the outcome (success or failure) of IIS 10.0 web server events.
V-218787 Medium An IIS 10.0 web server behind a load balancer or proxy server must produce log records containing the source client IP and destination information.
V-218786 Medium Both the log file and Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) for the IIS 10.0 web server must be enabled.
V-218785 Medium The enhanced logging for the IIS 10.0 web server must be enabled and capture all user and web server events.
V-218822 Medium The IIS 10.0 web server must maintain the confidentiality of controlled information during transmission through the use of an approved Transport Layer Security (TLS) version.
V-218817 Medium The IIS 10.0 web server must not be running on a system providing any other role.
V-218816 Medium Access to web administration tools must be restricted to the web manager and the web managers designees.
V-218815 Medium The IIS 10.0 web server must use a logging mechanism configured to allocate log record storage capacity large enough to accommodate the logging requirements of the IIS 10.0 web server.
V-218814 Medium IIS 10.0 web server system files must conform to minimum file permission requirements.
V-218813 Medium The IIS 10.0 web server must provide the capability to immediately disconnect or disable remote access to the hosted applications.
V-218812 Medium The IIS 10.0 web server must restrict inbound connections from non-secure zones.
V-218810 Medium Warning and error messages displayed to clients must be modified to minimize the identity of the IIS 10.0 web server, patches, loaded modules, and directory paths.
V-218819 Medium The IIS 10.0 web server must be tuned to handle the operational requirements of the hosted application.
V-218818 Medium The Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) must be disabled on the IIS 10.0 web server.
V-218798 Medium The IIS 10.0 web server must have Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) that invoke OS shell programs disabled.
V-218799 Medium The IIS 10.0 web server must have Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) disabled.
V-218790 Medium The log information from the IIS 10.0 web server must be protected from unauthorized modification or deletion.
V-218791 Medium The log data and records from the IIS 10.0 web server must be backed up onto a different system or media.
V-218792 Medium The IIS 10.0 web server must not perform user management for hosted applications.
V-218793 Medium The IIS 10.0 web server must only contain functions necessary for operation.
V-218794 Medium The IIS 10.0 web server must not be both a website server and a proxy server.
V-218796 Medium The accounts created by uninstalled features (i.e., tools, utilities, specific, etc.) must be deleted from the IIS 10.0 server.
V-218797 Medium The IIS 10.0 web server must be reviewed on a regular basis to remove any Operating System features, utility programs, plug-ins, and modules not necessary for operation.
V-218820 Medium IIS 10.0 web server session IDs must be sent to the client using TLS.
V-218826 Medium The IIS 10.0 websites MaxConnections setting must be configured to limit the number of allowed simultaneous session requests.
V-218824 Medium Unspecified file extensions on a production IIS 10.0 web server must be removed.
V-218825 Medium The IIS 10.0 web server must have a global authorization rule configured to restrict access.
V-218804 Medium The IIS 10.0 web server must use cookies to track session state.
V-218805 Medium The IIS 10.0 web server must accept only system-generated session identifiers.
V-218806 Medium The IIS 10.0 web server must augment re-creation to a stable and known baseline.
V-218807 Medium The production IIS 10.0 web server must utilize SHA2 encryption for the Machine Key.
V-218800 Medium The IIS 10.0 web server must perform RFC 5280-compliant certification path validation.
V-218801 Medium Java software installed on a production IIS 10.0 web server must be limited to .class files and the Java Virtual Machine.
V-218803 Medium The IIS 10.0 web server must separate the hosted applications from hosted web server management functionality.
V-218808 Medium Directory Browsing on the IIS 10.0 web server must be disabled.
V-218809 Medium The IIS 10.0 web server Indexing must only index web content.
V-241789 Low ASP.NET version must be removed from the HTTP Response Header information.
V-241788 Low HTTPAPI Server version must be removed from the HTTP Response Header information.
V-218827 Low The IIS 10.0 web server must enable HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS).