Making a Linux Plesk 8.6 Server PCI Compliant

To make a server that is running Plesk PCI compliant follow these steps:
 

1. Turn off medium and weak ciphers on the Plesk port (8443). This is done by editing the /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/httpsd.custom.include file.

   SSLProtocol -ALL +SSLv3 +TLSv1
   SSLCipherSuite HIGH:!MEDIUM:!LOW:!SSLv2:!EXP:!NULL:@STRENGTH
   
   ErrorDocument 417 "Expect not supported"
   ErrorDocument 413 "Request Entity Too Large."

   ServerTokens Prod
   UserDir Disabled

   The ErrorDocument prevents a XSS exploit using the expect headers. This must be done in the httpsd.custom.include file or else you Plesk will over write the changes. For the changes to take affect:

   # /sbin/service psa stop
   # /sbin/service psa start

   To test and make sure SSLv2 is disabled:

   # openssl s_client -connect localhost:8443 -ssl2

   You should not see any SSL information. To test the Expect headers:

   # openssl s_client -host localhost:8443
   
   Once you see a '---' enter the following to test:
   R

   ....snip...

   Get / HTTP/1.1
   Host: localhost
   Expect: */<script>fooz</script>/*

   If everything worked, you will see:

   HTTP/1.1 417 Expectation Failed
   Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:08:32 GMT
   Server: Apache
   Transfer-Encoding: chunked
   Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

   15
   Expect not supported
   0
    

2. Do the same thing as you did above for Apache. Create the file /etc/httpd/conf.d/zz050-psa-disable-weak-ssl-ciphers.conf and add:

   SSLProtocol -ALL +SSLv3 +TLSv1
   SSLCipherSuite HIGH:!MEDIUM:!SSLv2:!LOW:!EXP:!aNULL:@STRENGTH

   Apache has to be restarted for the changes to take affect:

   # /sbin/service httpd restart
    
   To test and make sure SSLv2 is disabled:

   # openssl s_client -connect localhost:443 -ssl2

   You should not see any SSL information.
   

3. Moving on to IMAP and POP3, the /etc/courier-imap/imapd-ssl and 
   /etc/courier-imap/pop3d-ssl files need to be modified by adding the following line:

   TLS_CIPHER_LIST="HIGH:!ADH:RC4+RSA:!SSLv2:!LOW:!MEDIUM:@STRENGTH"

   If there is another line with that variable setting, make sure you either remove it or comment it out. Restart the service:

   # /sbin/service courier-imap restart

   Test to make sure that SSLv2 has been properly disabled:

   # openssl s_client -connect localhost:993 -ssl2
   # openssl s_client -connect localhost:995 -ssl2

   You should not see any SSL information.
   

4. Turn off SSLv2 for port 465, add the following line to /var/qmail/control/tlsserverciphers and /var/qmail/control/tlsclientciphers

   !ALL:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL:!LOW:!EXP:!SSLv2:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:!MEDIUM
   

   
   Restart qmail:
   
   # /sbin/service qmail restart
   Test the new settings:

   openssl s_client -connect localhost:465 -ssl2
   

   You should not see any SSL information.
5. Configure named that it does not support recursion. This is done by editing the /etc/named.conf and adding the following below the options section

   recursion no;

6. PCI audits will fail if the certificate has expired for courier-imap. This is easily fixed. Navigate to the /usr/share/courier-imap directory and run the following commands:

   # ./mkimapdcert
   #./mkpop3dcert

   This will create a new certificate for both services resolving the issue of expired certificates. These certificates will expire in 1 year.
   
7. Add the following to your /etc/php.ini and your /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/php.ini, this requires httpd and Plesk to be restarted:

   expose_php = Off
   # /sbin/service httpd restart
   # /sbin/service psa restart

8. PCI scans are starting to fail when connecting to a site via port 25 (SMTP) and 587 (submission). There is another certificate that needs to be updated. I used a self signed certificate, but you can replace the certificate with one from a respected CA:

   # cd /var/qmail/control
   # openssl genrsa 2048 > host.key
   # openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -sha1 -days 730 -key host.key > host.cert
   # cat host.cert host.key > host.pem
   # cp servercert.pem > servercert.pem.bk
   # mv host.pem servercert.pem
   # /sbin/service qmail restart

   To test:

   $ openssl s_client -connect host.com:25 -starttls smtp
   $ openssl s_client -connect host.com:587 -starttls smtp

 This has been written and tested on Plesk 8.6 Some of the items may be applied to later versions of Plesk.