tc Server CaSa must set the secure flag for cookies.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-89099	VROM-TC-000960	SV-99749r1_rule		Medium

Description

Cookies can be sent to a client using TLS/SSL to encrypt the cookies, but TLS/SSL is not used by every hosted application since the data being displayed does not require the encryption of the transmission. To safeguard against cookies, especially session cookies, being sent in plaintext, a cookie can be encrypted before transmission. To force a cookie to be encrypted before transmission, the cookie Secure property can be set. As a Tomcat derivative, tc Server is based in part on the Java Servlet specification. Servlet 3.0 (Java EE 6) introduced a standard way to configure secure attribute for the session cookie, this can be done by applying the correct configuration in web.xml.

STIG	Date
VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.x tc Server Security Technical Implementation Guide	2018-10-12

Details

Check Text ( C-88791r1_chk )
At the command prompt, execute the following command: grep -E '' /usr/lib/vmware-casa/casa-webapp/conf/web.xml If the value of the node is not set to "true" or is missing, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-95841r1_fix)
Navigate to and open /usr/lib/vmware-casa/casa-webapp/conf/web.xml. Navigate to the node. Add the --> node setting to the node. Note: The --> node should be configured as shown below: true