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Bug
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Resolution: Not a Bug
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Undefined
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None
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rhel-8.10, rhel-9.6, rhel-10.0
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None
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None
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Low
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rhel-stacks-web-servers
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None
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False
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False
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None
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None
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None
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None
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Unspecified
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Unspecified
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Unspecified
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None
What were you trying to do that didn't work?
Security scanners report TRACE/TRACK enabled and identify it as a possible security issue. RHEL should disable TRACE/TRACK by default.
What is the impact of this issue to you?
Nessus, Qualys, and others flagging a security flaw.
https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Cross_Site_Tracing
Please provide the package NVR for which the bug is seen:
httpd (all versions)
How reproducible is this bug?:
Always
Steps to reproduce
- Install httpd
- curl -X TRACE 127.0.0.1
Expected results
405 Method not allowed
Actual results
TRACE / HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1
User-Agent: curl/8.9.1
Accept: /
Additional Information
This is being done by numerous projects piecemeal, but would be better done by the httpd project. See https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-59772, https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OSPRH-14672, https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHV-36639 and numerous others.