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Web Server Security Requirements Guide


Overview

Date Finding Count (95)
2022-09-20 CAT I (High): 2 CAT II (Med): 93 CAT III (Low): 0
STIG Description
This Security Requirements Guide is published as a tool to improve the security of Department of Defense (DoD) information systems. The requirements are derived from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53 and related documents. Comments or proposed revisions to this document should be sent via email to the following address: disa.stig_spt@mail.mil.

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Findings (MAC I - Mission Critical Public)

Finding ID Severity Title
V-206390 High The web server must use cryptographic modules that meet the requirements of applicable federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance when encrypting stored data.
V-206399 High The web server must generate a unique session identifier for each session using a FIPS 140-2 approved random number generator.
V-206395 Medium The web server must separate the hosted applications from hosted web server management functionality.
V-206400 Medium The web server must generate unique session identifiers that cannot be reliably reproduced.
V-206356 Medium The web server must generate, at a minimum, log records for system startup and shutdown, system access, and system authentication events.
V-206443 Medium The web server must install security-relevant software updates within the configured time period directed by an authoritative source (e.g., IAVM, CTOs, DTMs, and STIGs).
V-206442 Medium The web server must maintain the confidentiality and integrity of information during reception.
V-206441 Medium The web server must maintain the confidentiality and integrity of information during preparation for transmission.
V-206440 Medium The web server must remove all export ciphers to protect the confidentiality and integrity of transmitted information.
V-206445 Medium The web server must be configured in accordance with the security configuration settings based on DoD security configuration or implementation guidance, including STIGs, NSA configuration guides, CTOs, and DTMs.
V-206444 Medium All accounts installed with the web server software and tools must have passwords assigned and default passwords changed.
V-206357 Medium The web server must initiate session logging upon start up.
V-206380 Medium The web server must have Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) that invoke OS shell programs disabled.
V-206355 Medium The web server must enforce approved authorizations for logical access to hosted applications and resources in accordance with applicable access control policies.
V-206354 Medium The web server must generate information to be used by external applications or entities to monitor and control remote access.
V-206353 Medium The web server must use cryptography to protect the integrity of remote sessions.
V-206352 Medium The web server must use encryption strength in accordance with the categorization of data hosted by the web server when remote connections are provided.
V-206351 Medium The web server must perform server-side session management.
V-206381 Medium The web server must allow the mappings to unused and vulnerable scripts to be removed.
V-206350 Medium The web server must limit the number of allowed simultaneous session requests.
V-206416 Medium Remote access to the web server must follow access policy or work in conjunction with enterprise tools designed to enforce policy requirements.
V-206359 Medium The web server must produce log records containing sufficient information to establish what type of events occurred.
V-206417 Medium The web server must restrict inbound connections from nonsecure zones.
V-206410 Medium The web server must limit the character set used for data entry.
V-206385 Medium Users and scripts running on behalf of users must be contained to the document root or home directory tree of the web server.
V-206412 Medium Warning and error messages displayed to clients must be modified to minimize the identity of the web server, patches, loaded modules, and directory paths.
V-206413 Medium Debugging and trace information used to diagnose the web server must be disabled.
V-206368 Medium Web server log files must only be accessible by privileged users.
V-206369 Medium The log information from the web server must be protected from unauthorized modification.
V-206362 Medium The web server must produce log records containing sufficient information to establish the source of events.
V-206363 Medium A web server, behind a load balancer or proxy server, must produce log records containing the client IP information as the source and destination and not the load balancer or proxy IP information with each event.
V-206360 Medium The web server must produce log records containing sufficient information to establish when (date and time) events occurred.
V-206361 Medium The web server must produce log records containing sufficient information to establish where within the web server the events occurred.
V-206366 Medium The web server must use a logging mechanism that is configured to alert the ISSO and SA in the event of a processing failure.
V-206367 Medium The web server must use the internal system clock to generate time stamps for log records.
V-206364 Medium The web server must produce log records that contain sufficient information to establish the outcome (success or failure) of events.
V-206365 Medium The web server must produce log records containing sufficient information to establish the identity of any user/subject or process associated with an event.
V-206379 Medium The web server must provide install options to exclude installation of utility programs, services, plug-ins, and modules not necessary for operation.
V-206378 Medium Web server accounts not utilized by installed features (i.e., tools, utilities, specific services, etc.) must not be created and must be deleted when the web server feature is uninstalled.
V-206375 Medium The web server must only contain services and functions necessary for operation.
V-206374 Medium The web server must not perform user management for hosted applications.
V-206377 Medium The web server must provide install options to exclude the installation of documentation, sample code, example applications, and tutorials.
V-206376 Medium The web server must not be a proxy server.
V-206371 Medium The log data and records from the web server must be backed up onto a different system or media.
V-206370 Medium The log information from the web server must be protected from unauthorized deletion.
V-206373 Medium Expansion modules must be fully reviewed, tested, and signed before they can exist on a production web server.
V-206372 Medium All web server files must be verified for their integrity (e.g., checksums and hashes) before becoming part of the production web server.
V-206414 Medium The web server must set an absolute timeout for sessions.
V-206415 Medium The web server must set an inactive timeout for sessions.
V-206382 Medium The web server must have resource mappings set to disable the serving of certain file types.
V-206383 Medium The web server must have Web Distributed Authoring (WebDAV) disabled.
V-206384 Medium The web server must protect system resources and privileged operations from hosted applications.
V-206411 Medium The web server must display a default hosted application web page, not a directory listing, when a requested web page cannot be found.
V-206386 Medium The web server must be configured to use a specified IP address and port.
V-206387 Medium The web server must encrypt passwords during transmission.
V-206388 Medium The web server must perform RFC 5280-compliant certification path validation.
V-206389 Medium Only authenticated system administrators or the designated PKI Sponsor for the web server must have access to the web servers private key.
V-206418 Medium The web server must provide the capability to immediately disconnect or disable remote access to the hosted applications.
V-206419 Medium Non-privileged accounts on the hosting system must only access web server security-relevant information and functions through a distinct administrative account.
V-206407 Medium Information at rest must be encrypted using a DoD-accepted algorithm to protect the confidentiality and integrity of the information.
V-206406 Medium The web server must provide a clustering capability.
V-206391 Medium The web server must use cryptographic modules that meet the requirements of applicable federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance for such authentication.
V-206403 Medium The web server must generate unique session identifiers with definable entropy.
V-206402 Medium The web server must generate a session ID using as much of the character set as possible to reduce the risk of brute force.
V-206401 Medium The web server must generate a session ID long enough that it cannot be guessed through brute force.
V-206394 Medium Anonymous user access to the web server application directories must be prohibited.
V-206398 Medium The web server must accept only system-generated session identifiers.
V-206409 Medium The web server must restrict the ability of users to launch Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against other information systems or networks.
V-206408 Medium The web server document directory must be in a separate partition from the web servers system files.
V-206438 Medium Cookies exchanged between the web server and the client, such as session cookies, must have cookie properties set to force the encryption of cookies.
V-206439 Medium A web server must maintain the confidentiality of controlled information during transmission through the use of an approved TLS version.
V-206432 Medium The web server must be protected from being stopped by a non-privileged user.
V-206433 Medium The web server must be tuned to handle the operational requirements of the hosted application.
V-206430 Medium The web server must only accept client certificates issued by DoD PKI or DoD-approved PKI Certification Authorities (CAs).
V-206431 Medium The web server must encrypt user identifiers and passwords.
V-206436 Medium Web server cookies, such as session cookies, sent to the client using SSL/TLS must not be compressed.
V-206437 Medium Cookies exchanged between the web server and the client, such as session cookies, must have cookie properties set to prohibit client-side scripts from reading the cookie data.
V-206434 Medium The web server must employ cryptographic mechanisms (TLS/DTLS/SSL) preventing the unauthorized disclosure of information during transmission.
V-206435 Medium Web server session IDs must be sent to the client using SSL/TLS.
V-239371 Medium The web server must implement required cryptographic protections using cryptographic modules complying with applicable federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance when encrypting data that must be compartment
V-206428 Medium The web server must prohibit or restrict the use of nonsecure or unnecessary ports, protocols, modules, and/or services.
V-206425 Medium The web server must generate log records that can be mapped to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) or Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
V-206424 Medium The web server must use a logging mechanism that is configured to provide a warning to the ISSO and SA when allocated record storage volume reaches 75% of maximum log record storage capacity.
V-206427 Medium The web server application, libraries, and configuration files must only be accessible to privileged users.
V-206426 Medium The web server must record time stamps for log records to a minimum granularity of one second.
V-206421 Medium The web server must use a logging mechanism that is configured to allocate log record storage capacity large enough to accommodate the logging requirements of the web server.
V-206420 Medium A web server that is part of a web server cluster must route all remote management through a centrally managed access control point.
V-206423 Medium The web server must be configurable to integrate with an organizations security infrastructure.
V-206422 Medium The web server must not impede the ability to write specified log record content to an audit log server.
V-206393 Medium Web server accounts accessing the directory tree, the shell, or other operating system functions and utilities must only be administrative accounts.
V-206392 Medium A web server utilizing mobile code must meet DoD-defined mobile code requirements.
V-206405 Medium The web server must be built to fail to a known safe state if system initialization fails, shutdown fails, or aborts fail.
V-206404 Medium The web server must augment re-creation to a stable and known baseline.
V-206397 Medium Cookies exchanged between the web server and client, such as session cookies, must have security settings that disallow cookie access outside the originating web server and hosted application.
V-206396 Medium The web server must invalidate session identifiers upon hosted application user logout or other session termination.