Lighttpd audit records must be mapped to a time stamp.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-240263	VRAU-LI-000415	SV-240263r879747_rule		Medium

Description
If time stamps are not consistently applied and there is no common time reference, it is difficult to perform forensic analysis across multiple devices and log records. Time stamps generated by the web server include date and time. Time is commonly expressed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), a modern continuation of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), or local time with an offset from UTC. In order to ensure that Lighttpd is correctly logging timestamps, the accesslog.format setting must be enabled.

Description

If time stamps are not consistently applied and there is no common time reference, it is difficult to perform forensic analysis across multiple devices and log records. Time stamps generated by the web server include date and time. Time is commonly expressed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), a modern continuation of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), or local time with an offset from UTC. In order to ensure that Lighttpd is correctly logging timestamps, the accesslog.format setting must be enabled.

STIG	Date
VMware vRealize Automation 7.x Lighttpd Security Technical Implementation Guide	2023-09-12

Details

Check Text ( C-43496r667964_chk )
At the command prompt, execute the following command: grep 'accesslog.format' /opt/vmware/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf \| grep -v ^# If no value is returned or if the "accesslog.format" is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-43455r854821_fix)
Navigate to and open /opt/vmware/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf Note: If the accesslog.format setting was commented out with a '#' sign, remove the '#' sign. Configure the lighttpd.conf file with the following: accesslog.format = "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %b %>s \"%{User-Agent}i\" \"%{Referer}i\""