The web server must provide install options to exclude the installation of documentation, sample code, example applications, and tutorials.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-41695	SRG-APP-000141-WSR-000077	SV-54272r3_rule		Medium

Description
Web server documentation, sample code, example applications, and tutorials may be an exploitable threat to a web server because this type of code has not been evaluated and approved. A production web server must only contain components that are operationally necessary (e.g., compiled code, scripts, web-content, etc.). Any documentation, sample code, example applications, and tutorials must be removed from a production web server. To make certain that the documentation and code are not installed or uninstalled completely; the web server must offer an option as part of the installation process to exclude these packages or to uninstall the packages if necessary.

Description

Web server documentation, sample code, example applications, and tutorials may be an exploitable threat to a web server because this type of code has not been evaluated and approved. A production web server must only contain components that are operationally necessary (e.g., compiled code, scripts, web-content, etc.). Any documentation, sample code, example applications, and tutorials must be removed from a production web server. To make certain that the documentation and code are not installed or uninstalled completely; the web server must offer an option as part of the installation process to exclude these packages or to uninstall the packages if necessary.

STIG	Date
Web Server Security Requirements Guide	2015-08-28

Details

Check Text ( C-48092r2_chk )
Review the web server documentation and deployment configuration to determine if the web server contains documentation, sample code, example applications, or tutorials. Verify the web server install process also offers an option to exclude these elements from installation and provides an uninstall option for their removal. If web server documentation, sample code, example applications, or tutorials are installed or the web server install process does not offer an option to exclude these elements from installation, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-48092r2_chk )

Review the web server documentation and deployment configuration to determine if the web server contains documentation, sample code, example applications, or tutorials.

Verify the web server install process also offers an option to exclude these elements from installation and provides an uninstall option for their removal.

If web server documentation, sample code, example applications, or tutorials are installed or the web server install process does not offer an option to exclude these elements from installation, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-47154r2_fix)
Use the web server uninstall facility or manually remove any documentation, sample code, example applications, and tutorials.