tc Server API must encrypt passwords during transmission.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-241656	VROM-TC-000455	SV-241656r879609_rule		Medium

Description
Data used to authenticate, especially passwords, needs to be protected at all times, and encryption is the standard method for protecting authentication data during transmission. Data used to authenticate can be passed to and from the web server for many reasons. Examples include data passed from a user to the web server through an HTTPS connection for authentication, the web server authenticating to a backend database for data retrieval and posting, and the web server authenticating to a clustered web server manager for an update. HTTP connections in tc Server are managed through the Connector object. Setting the Connector's “SSLEnabled” flag, SSL handshake/encryption/decryption is enabled.

Description

Data used to authenticate, especially passwords, needs to be protected at all times, and encryption is the standard method for protecting authentication data during transmission. Data used to authenticate can be passed to and from the web server for many reasons. Examples include data passed from a user to the web server through an HTTPS connection for authentication, the web server authenticating to a backend database for data retrieval and posting, and the web server authenticating to a clustered web server manager for an update. HTTP connections in tc Server are managed through the Connector object. Setting the Connector's “SSLEnabled” flag, SSL handshake/encryption/decryption is enabled.

STIG	Date
VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.x tc Server Security Technical Implementation Guide	2023-09-12

Details

Check Text ( C-44932r683828_chk )
Navigate to and open /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/tomcat-enterprise/conf/server.xml. Navigate to the node that contains 'port="${vmware-ssl.https.port}"'. If the value of “SSLEnabled” is not set to “true” or is missing, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-44891r683829_fix)
Navigate to and open /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/tomcat-enterprise/conf/server.xml. Navigate to each of the nodes. Configure each with the value 'SSLEnabled="true"'