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V-218754CAT II — Medium severitySV-218754r1156525_rule

The IIS 10.0 website must be configured to limit the size of web requests.

Rule version IIST-SI-000226 · STIG v2 · 2026-08-26

Discussion

By setting limits on web requests, it ensures availability of web services and mitigates the risk of buffer overflow type attacks. The maxAllowedContentLength Request Filter limits the number of bytes the server will accept in a request.

Check

Follow the procedures below for each site hosted on the IIS 10.0 web server:

Open the IIS 10.0 Manager.

Click on the site name.

Double-click the "Request Filtering" icon.

Click "Edit Feature Settings" in the "Actions" pane.

If the "maxAllowedContentLength" value is not explicitly set to "2147483647" or less or a length documented and approved by the ISSO, this is a finding.

Fix

Follow the procedures below for each site hosted on the IIS 10.0 web server:

Open the IIS 10.0 Manager.

Click the site name under review.

Double-click the "Request Filtering" icon.

Click "Edit Feature Settings" in the "Actions" pane.

Set the "maxAllowedContentLength" value to "2147483647" or less.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-218754
Group title
SRG-APP-000246-WSR-000149
Rule ID
SV-218754r1156525_rule
Check ID
C-20227r1156523_chk
Fix ID
F-20225r1156524_fix