Performance Charts must not enable support for TRACE requests.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-256637	VCPF-70-000027	SV-256637r888402_rule		Medium

Description
"TRACE" is a technique for a user to request internal information about Tomcat. This is useful during product development but should not be enabled in production. Allowing an attacker to conduct a TRACE operation against Performance Charts will expose information that would be useful to perform a more targeted attack. Performance Charts provides the "allowTrace" parameter as means to disable responding to TRACE requests.

Description

"TRACE" is a technique for a user to request internal information about Tomcat. This is useful during product development but should not be enabled in production. Allowing an attacker to conduct a TRACE operation against Performance Charts will expose information that would be useful to perform a more targeted attack. Performance Charts provides the "allowTrace" parameter as means to disable responding to TRACE requests.

STIG	Date
VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance Perfcharts Security Technical Implementation Guide	2023-02-21

Details

Check Text ( C-60312r888400_chk )
At the command prompt, run the following command: # grep allowTrace /usr/lib/vmware-perfcharts/tc-instance/conf/server.xml If "allowTrace" is set to "true", this is a finding. If no line is returned, this is not a finding.

Fix Text (F-60255r888401_fix)
Navigate to and open: /usr/lib/vmware-perfcharts/tc-instance/conf/server.xml Locate and navigate to 'allowTrace="true"'. Remove the 'allowTrace="true"' setting. Restart the service with the following command: # vmon-cli --restart perfcharts