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30    <p>Some hints and tips on security issues in setting up a web server.
31    Some of the suggestions will be general, others specific to Apache.</p>
32  </div>
33<div id="quickview"><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#uptodate">Keep up to Date</a></li>
34<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#dos">Denial of Service (DoS) attacks</a></li>
35<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#serverroot">Permissions on ServerRoot Directories</a></li>
36<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#ssi">Server Side Includes</a></li>
37<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#cgi">CGI in General</a></li>
38<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#nsaliasedcgi">Non Script Aliased CGI</a></li>
39<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#saliasedcgi">Script Aliased CGI</a></li>
40<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#dynamic">Other sources of dynamic content</a></li>
41<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#dynamicsec">Dynamic content security</a></li>
42<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#systemsettings">Protecting System Settings</a></li>
43<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#protectserverfiles">Protect Server Files by Default</a></li>
44<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#watchyourlogs">Watching Your Logs</a></li>
45<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#merging">Merging of configuration sections</a></li>
46</ul><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="#comments_section">Comments</a></li></ul></div>
47<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div>
48<div class="section">
49<h2><a name="uptodate" id="uptodate">Keep up to Date</a></h2>
50
51    <p>The Apache HTTP Server has a good record for security and a
52    developer community highly concerned about security issues.  But
53    it is inevitable that some problems -- small or large -- will be
54    discovered in software after it is released.  For this reason, it
55    is crucial to keep aware of updates to the software.  If you have
56    obtained your version of the HTTP Server directly from Apache, we
57    highly recommend you subscribe to the <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/lists.html#http-announce">Apache
58    HTTP Server Announcements List</a> where you can keep informed of
59    new releases and security updates.  Similar services are available
60    from most third-party distributors of Apache software.</p>
61
62    <p>Of course, most times that a web server is compromised, it is
63    not because of problems in the HTTP Server code.  Rather, it comes
64    from problems in add-on code, CGI scripts, or the underlying
65    Operating System.  You must therefore stay aware of problems and
66    updates with all the software on your system.</p>
67
68  </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div>
69<div class="section">
70<h2><a name="dos" id="dos">Denial of Service (DoS) attacks</a></h2>
71
72    
73
74    <p>All network servers can be subject to denial of service attacks
75    that attempt to prevent responses to clients by tying up the
76    resources of the server.  It is not possible to prevent such
77    attacks entirely, but you can do certain things to mitigate the
78    problems that they create.</p>
79
80    <p>Often the most effective anti-DoS tool will be a firewall or
81    other operating-system configurations.  For example, most
82    firewalls can be configured to restrict the number of simultaneous
83    connections from any individual IP address or network, thus
84    preventing a range of simple attacks.  Of course this is no help
85    against Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS).</p>
86
87    <p>There are also certain Apache HTTP Server configuration
88    settings that can help mitigate problems:</p>
89
90    <ul>
91      <li>The <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_reqtimeout.html#requestreadtimeout">RequestReadTimeout</a></code>
92      directive allows to limit the time a client may take to send the
93      request.</li>
94
95      <li>The <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#timeout">TimeOut</a></code> directive
96      should be lowered on sites that are subject to DoS attacks.
97      Setting this to as low as a few seconds may be appropriate.
98      As <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#timeout">TimeOut</a></code> is currently
99      used for several different operations, setting it to a low value
100      introduces problems with long running CGI scripts.</li>
101
102      <li>The <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#keepalivetimeout">KeepAliveTimeout</a></code>
103      directive may be also lowered on sites that are subject to DoS
104      attacks.  Some sites even turn off the keepalives completely via
105      <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#keepalive">KeepAlive</a></code>, which has of course
106      other drawbacks on performance.</li>
107
108      <li>The values of various timeout-related directives provided by
109      other modules should be checked.</li>
110
111      <li>The directives
112      <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#limitrequestbody">LimitRequestBody</a></code>,
113      <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#limitrequestfields">LimitRequestFields</a></code>,
114      <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#limitrequestfieldsize">LimitRequestFieldSize</a></code>,
115      <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#limitrequestline">LimitRequestLine</a></code>, and
116      <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#limitxmlrequestbody">LimitXMLRequestBody</a></code>
117      should be carefully configured to limit resource consumption
118      triggered by client input.</li>
119
120      <li>On operating systems that support it, make sure that you use
121      the <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#acceptfilter">AcceptFilter</a></code> directive
122      to offload part of the request processing to the operating
123      system.  This is active by default in Apache httpd, but may
124      require reconfiguration of your kernel.</li>
125
126      <li>Tune the <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mpm_common.html#maxrequestworkers">MaxRequestWorkers</a></code> directive to allow
127      the server to handle the maximum number of simultaneous
128      connections without running out of resources.  See also the <a href="perf-tuning.html">performance tuning
129      documentation</a>.</li>
130
131      <li>The use of a threaded <a href="/mpm.html">mpm</a> may
132      allow you to handle more simultaneous connections, thereby
133      mitigating DoS attacks.  Further, the 
134      <code class="module"><a href="/mod/event.html">event</a></code> mpm
135      uses asynchronous processing to avoid devoting a thread to each
136      connection. Due to the nature of the OpenSSL library the
137      <code class="module"><a href="/mod/event.html">event</a></code> mpm is currently incompatible with
138	  <code class="module"><a href="/mod/mod_ssl.html">mod_ssl</a></code> and other input filters. In these
139      cases it falls back to the behaviour of the
140      <code class="module"><a href="/mod/worker.html">worker</a></code> mpm.</li>
141
142      <li>There are a number of third-party modules available through
143      <a href="http://modules.apache.org/">http://modules.apache.org/</a>
144      that can restrict certain client behaviors and thereby mitigate
145      DoS problems.</li>
146
147    </ul>
148
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150<div class="section">
151<h2><a name="serverroot" id="serverroot">Permissions on ServerRoot Directories</a></h2>
152
153    
154
155    <p>In typical operation, Apache is started by the root user, and it
156    switches to the user defined by the <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_unixd.html#user">User</a></code> directive to serve hits. As is the
157    case with any command that root executes, you must take care that it is
158    protected from modification by non-root users. Not only must the files
159    themselves be writeable only by root, but so must the directories, and
160    parents of all directories. For example, if you choose to place
161    ServerRoot in  <code>/usr/local/apache</code> then it is suggested that
162    you create that directory as root, with commands like these:</p>
163
164    <div class="example"><p><code>
165      mkdir /usr/local/apache <br />
166      cd /usr/local/apache <br />
167      mkdir bin conf logs <br />
168      chown 0 . bin conf logs <br />
169      chgrp 0 . bin conf logs <br />
170      chmod 755 . bin conf logs
171    </code></p></div>
172
173    <p>It is assumed that <code>/</code>, <code>/usr</code>, and
174    <code>/usr/local</code> are only modifiable by root. When you install the
175    <code class="program"><a href="/programs/httpd.html">httpd</a></code> executable, you should ensure that it is
176    similarly protected:</p>
177
178    <div class="example"><p><code>
179      cp httpd /usr/local/apache/bin <br />
180      chown 0 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd <br />
181      chgrp 0 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd <br />
182      chmod 511 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd
183    </code></p></div>
184
185    <p>You can create an htdocs subdirectory which is modifiable by other
186    users -- since root never executes any files out of there, and shouldn't
187    be creating files in there.</p>
188
189    <p>If you allow non-root users to modify any files that root either
190    executes or writes on then you open your system to root compromises.
191    For example, someone could replace the <code class="program"><a href="/programs/httpd.html">httpd</a></code> binary so
192    that the next time you start it, it will execute some arbitrary code. If
193    the logs directory is writeable (by a non-root user), someone could replace
194    a log file with a symlink to some other system file, and then root
195    might overwrite that file with arbitrary data. If the log files
196    themselves are writeable (by a non-root user), then someone may be
197    able to overwrite the log itself with bogus data.</p>
198
199  </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div>
200<div class="section">
201<h2><a name="ssi" id="ssi">Server Side Includes</a></h2>
202
203    
204
205    <p>Server Side Includes (SSI) present a server administrator with
206    several potential security risks.</p>
207
208    <p>The first risk is the increased load on the server. All
209    SSI-enabled files have to be parsed by Apache, whether or not
210    there are any SSI directives included within the files. While this
211    load increase is minor, in a shared server environment it can become
212    significant.</p>
213
214    <p>SSI files also pose the same risks that are associated with CGI
215    scripts in general. Using the <code>exec cmd</code> element, SSI-enabled
216    files can execute any CGI script or program under the permissions of the
217    user and group Apache runs as, as configured in
218    <code>httpd.conf</code>.</p>
219
220    <p>There are ways to enhance the security of SSI files while still
221    taking advantage of the benefits they provide.</p>
222
223    <p>To isolate the damage a wayward SSI file can cause, a server
224    administrator can enable <a href="/suexec.html">suexec</a> as
225    described in the <a href="#cgi">CGI in General</a> section.</p>
226
227    <p>Enabling SSI for files with <code>.html</code> or <code>.htm</code>
228    extensions can be dangerous. This is especially true in a shared, or high
229    traffic, server environment. SSI-enabled files should have a separate
230    extension, such as the conventional <code>.shtml</code>. This helps keep
231    server load at a minimum and allows for easier management of risk.</p>
232
233    <p>Another solution is to disable the ability to run scripts and
234    programs from SSI pages. To do this replace <code>Includes</code>
235    with <code>IncludesNOEXEC</code> in the <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#options">Options</a></code> directive.  Note that users may
236    still use <code>&lt;--#include virtual="..." --&gt;</code> to execute CGI
237    scripts if these scripts are in directories designated by a <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_alias.html#scriptalias">ScriptAlias</a></code> directive.</p>
238
239  </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div>
240<div class="section">
241<h2><a name="cgi" id="cgi">CGI in General</a></h2>
242
243    
244
245    <p>First of all, you always have to remember that you must trust the
246    writers of the CGI scripts/programs or your ability to spot potential
247    security holes in CGI, whether they were deliberate or accidental. CGI
248    scripts can run essentially arbitrary commands on your system with the
249    permissions of the web server user and can therefore be extremely
250    dangerous if they are not carefully checked.</p>
251
252    <p>All the CGI scripts will run as the same user, so they have potential
253    to conflict (accidentally or deliberately) with other scripts e.g. User
254    A hates User B, so he writes a script to trash User B's CGI database. One
255    program which can be used to allow scripts to run as different users is
256    <a href="/suexec.html">suEXEC</a> which is included with Apache as of
257    1.2 and is called from special hooks in the Apache server code. Another
258    popular way of doing this is with
259    <a href="http://cgiwrap.sourceforge.net/">CGIWrap</a>.</p>
260
261  </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div>
262<div class="section">
263<h2><a name="nsaliasedcgi" id="nsaliasedcgi">Non Script Aliased CGI</a></h2>
264
265    
266
267    <p>Allowing users to execute CGI scripts in any directory should only be
268    considered if:</p>
269
270    <ul>
271      <li>You trust your users not to write scripts which will deliberately
272          or accidentally expose your system to an attack.</li>
273      <li>You consider security at your site to be so feeble in other areas,
274          as to make one more potential hole irrelevant.</li>
275      <li>You have no users, and nobody ever visits your server.</li>
276    </ul>
277
278  </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div>
279<div class="section">
280<h2><a name="saliasedcgi" id="saliasedcgi">Script Aliased CGI</a></h2>
281
282    
283
284    <p>Limiting CGI to special directories gives the admin control over what
285    goes into those directories. This is inevitably more secure than non
286    script aliased CGI, but only if users with write access to the
287    directories are trusted or the admin is willing to test each
288    new CGI script/program for potential security holes.</p>
289
290    <p>Most sites choose this option over the non script aliased CGI
291    approach.</p>
292
293  </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div>
294<div class="section">
295<h2><a name="dynamic" id="dynamic">Other sources of dynamic content</a></h2>
296
297  
298
299  <p>Embedded scripting options which run as part of the server itself,
300  such as <code>mod_php</code>, <code>mod_perl</code>, <code>mod_tcl</code>,
301  and <code>mod_python</code>, run under the identity of the server itself
302  (see the <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_unixd.html#user">User</a></code> directive), and
303  therefore scripts executed by these engines potentially can access anything
304  the server user can. Some scripting engines may provide restrictions, but
305  it is better to be safe and assume not.</p>
306
307  </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div>
308<div class="section">
309<h2><a name="dynamicsec" id="dynamicsec">Dynamic content security</a></h2>
310
311  
312
313  <p>When setting up dynamic content, such as <code>mod_php</code>,
314  <code>mod_perl</code> or <code>mod_python</code>, many security considerations
315  get out of the scope of <code>httpd</code> itself, and you need to consult
316  documentation from those modules. For example, PHP lets you setup <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.sect.safe-mode.php">Safe Mode</a>,
317  which is most usually disabled by default. Another example is <a href="http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/">Suhosin</a>, a PHP addon for more
318  security. For more information about those, consult each project
319  documentation.</p>
320
321  <p>At the Apache level, a module named <a href="http://modsecurity.org/">mod_security</a>
322  can be seen as a HTTP firewall and, provided you configure it finely enough,
323  can help you enhance your dynamic content security.</p>
324
325  </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div>
326<div class="section">
327<h2><a name="systemsettings" id="systemsettings">Protecting System Settings</a></h2>
328
329    
330
331    <p>To run a really tight ship, you'll want to stop users from setting
332    up <code>.htaccess</code> files which can override security features
333    you've configured. Here's one way to do it.</p>
334
335    <p>In the server configuration file, put</p>
336
337    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">&lt;Directory /&gt;
338    AllowOverride None
339&lt;/Directory&gt;</pre>
340
341
342    <p>This prevents the use of <code>.htaccess</code> files in all
343    directories apart from those specifically enabled.</p>
344
345  </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div>
346<div class="section">
347<h2><a name="protectserverfiles" id="protectserverfiles">Protect Server Files by Default</a></h2>
348
349    
350
351    <p>One aspect of Apache which is occasionally misunderstood is the
352    feature of default access. That is, unless you take steps to change it,
353    if the server can find its way to a file through normal URL mapping
354    rules, it can serve it to clients.</p>
355
356    <p>For instance, consider the following example:</p>
357
358    <div class="example"><p><code>
359      # cd /; ln -s / public_html <br />
360      Accessing <code>http://localhost/~root/</code>
361    </code></p></div>
362
363    <p>This would allow clients to walk through the entire filesystem. To
364    work around this, add the following block to your server's
365    configuration:</p>
366
367    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">&lt;Directory /&gt;
368    Require all denied
369&lt;/Directory&gt;</pre>
370
371
372    <p>This will forbid default access to filesystem locations. Add
373    appropriate <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#directory">Directory</a></code> blocks to
374    allow access only in those areas you wish. For example,</p>
375
376    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">&lt;Directory /usr/users/*/public_html&gt;
377    Require all granted
378&lt;/Directory&gt;
379&lt;Directory /usr/local/httpd&gt;
380    Require all granted
381&lt;/Directory&gt;</pre>
382
383
384    <p>Pay particular attention to the interactions of <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#location">Location</a></code> and <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/core.html#directory">Directory</a></code> directives; for instance, even
385    if <code>&lt;Directory /&gt;</code> denies access, a <code>
386    &lt;Location /&gt;</code> directive might overturn it.</p>
387
388    <p>Also be wary of playing games with the <code class="directive"><a href="/mod/mod_userdir.html#userdir">UserDir</a></code> directive; setting it to
389    something like <code>./</code> would have the same effect, for root, as
390    the first example above. We strongly
391    recommend that you include the following line in your server
392    configuration files:</p>
393
394    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">UserDir disabled root</pre>
395
396
397  </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div>
398<div class="section">
399<h2><a name="watchyourlogs" id="watchyourlogs">Watching Your Logs</a></h2>
400
401    
402
403    <p>To keep up-to-date with what is actually going on against your server
404    you have to check the <a href="/logs.html">Log Files</a>.  Even though
405    the log files only reports what has already happened, they will give you
406    some understanding of what attacks is thrown against the server and
407    allow you to check if the necessary level of security is present.</p>
408
409    <p>A couple of examples:</p>
410
411    <div class="example"><p><code>
412      grep -c "/jsp/source.jsp?/jsp/ /jsp/source.jsp??" access_log <br />
413      grep "client denied" error_log | tail -n 10
414    </code></p></div>
415
416    <p>The first example will list the number of attacks trying to exploit the
417    <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/bid/4876/info/">Apache Tomcat
418    Source.JSP Malformed Request Information Disclosure Vulnerability</a>,
419    the second example will list the ten last denied clients, for example:</p>
420
421    <div class="example"><p><code>
422      [Thu Jul 11 17:18:39 2002] [error] [client foo.example.com] client denied
423      by server configuration: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/.htpasswd
424    </code></p></div>
425
426    <p>As you can see, the log files only report what already has happened, so
427    if the client had been able to access the <code>.htpasswd</code> file you
428    would have seen something similar to:</p>
429
430    <div class="example"><p><code>
431      foo.example.com - - [12/Jul/2002:01:59:13 +0200] "GET /.htpasswd HTTP/1.1"
432    </code></p></div>
433
434    <p>in your <a href="/logs.html#accesslog">Access Log</a>. This means
435    you probably commented out the following in your server configuration
436    file:</p>
437
438    <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">&lt;Files ".ht*"&gt;
439    Require all denied
440&lt;/Files&gt;</pre>
441
442
443  </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div>
444<div class="section">
445<h2><a name="merging" id="merging">Merging of configuration sections</a></h2>
446
447    
448
449    <p> The merging of configuration sections is complicated and sometimes
450    directive specific.  Always test your changes when creating dependencies
451    on how directives are merged.</p>
452
453    <p> For modules that don't implement any merging logic, such as 
454    <code class="directive">mod_access_compat</code>, the behavior in later sections
455    depends on whether the later section has any directives
456    from the module.  The configuration is inherited until a change is made, 
457    at which point the configuration is <em>replaced</em> and not merged.</p>
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