TRACE/TRACK methods

[Mark Lenz <ML...@piercemfg.com>]

Our company conducted a security audit and Tomcat was reported as
supporting TRACE and TRACK.  It said, "It has been shown that servers
supporting this method are subject to cross-site-scripting attacks, dubbed
XST for 'Cross-Site-Tracing', when used in conjunction with various
weaknesses in browsers."  I have been assigned the task of turning off this
support, but I have searched Google, tomcat-user archives and the Tomcat
documentation to no avail.  Does anyone know how to disable these methods?
Thanks.

Mark Lenz
Software Engineer
Control Systems Group
Pierce Manufacturing, Inc.
(920) 832-3523
mlenz@piercemfg.com

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Re: TRACE/TRACK methods

[Tim Funk <fu...@joedog.org>]

You can add a security constraint in web.xml to disable TRACE.

-Tim

Mark Lenz wrote:
> Our company conducted a security audit and Tomcat was reported as
> supporting TRACE and TRACK.  It said, "It has been shown that servers
> supporting this method are subject to cross-site-scripting attacks, dubbed
> XST for 'Cross-Site-Tracing', when used in conjunction with various
> weaknesses in browsers."  I have been assigned the task of turning off this
> support, but I have searched Google, tomcat-user archives and the Tomcat
> documentation to no avail.  Does anyone know how to disable these methods?
> Thanks.