V-240244

Discussion

A web server can be installed with functionality that, just by its nature, is not secure. Web Distributed Authoring (WebDAV) is an extension to the HTTP protocol that, when developed, was meant to allow users to create, change, and move documents on a server, typically a web server or web share. Allowing this functionality, development, and deployment is much easier for web authors. WebDAV is not widely used and has serious security concerns because it may allow clients to modify unauthorized files on the web server. The Lighttpd configuration file uses the 'include' statement to include other configuration files. The default lighttpd.conf file contains a reference to include a webdav.conf file, and it is possible for the WebDAV module to be loaded in other files.

Check Content

At the command prompt, execute the following command:

grep 'webdav.conf' /opt/vmware/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

If the return value is an include statement and it is not commented out, this is a finding.