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vSphere UI must be configured to show error pages with minimal information.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-256802VCUI-70-000025SV-256802r889405_ruleCCI-001312medium
Description
Web servers will often display error messages to client users with enough information to aid in the debugging of the error. The information given back in error messages may display the web server type, version, patches installed, plug-ins and modules installed, type of code being used by the hosted application, and any backends being used for data storage. This information could be used by an attacker to blueprint what type of attacks might be successful. Therefore, vSphere UI must be configured to not show server version information in error pages.
STIGDate
VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance UI Security Technical Implementation Guide2023-06-15

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 3 frameworks
SCF0 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (1) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

TDA-19Error Handling
1.00
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (19) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

AC-17(1)Monitoring and Control
1.00
AC-6(9)Log Use of Privileged Functions
1.00
AU-10Non-repudiation
1.00
AU-12Audit Record Generation
1.00
AU-14(1)System Start-up
1.00
AU-3Content of Audit Records
1.00
AU-3(1)Additional Audit Information
1.00
AU-9Protection of Audit Information
1.00
CM-3(5)Automated Security Response
1.00
CM-5(1)Automated Access Enforcement and Audit Records
1.00

+9 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

CCI1 mapping
CCI-001312
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-256802r889405_chk)

At the command prompt, run the following command: # xmllint --format /usr/lib/vmware-vsphere-ui/server/conf/server.xml | xmllint --xpath '/Server/Service/Engine/Host/Valve[@className="org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve"]' - Expected result: <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve" showServerInfo="false" showReport="false"/> If the output of the command does not match the expected result, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-60420r889404_fix)

Navigate to and open: /usr/lib/vmware-vsphere-ui/server/conf/server.xml Locate the following Host block: <Host ...> ... </Host> Inside this block, remove any existing Valve with className="org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve" and add the following: <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve" showServerInfo="false" showReport="false"/> Restart the service with the following command: # vmon-cli --restart vsphere-ui