VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance EAM Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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SRG-APP-000001-WSR-000001
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ESX Agent Manager must limit the amount of time that each Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection is kept alive.
Denial of service (DoS) is one threat against web servers. Many DoS attacks attempt to consume web server resources in such a way that no more resources are available to satisfy legitimate requests...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000001-WSR-000001
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ESX Agent Manager must limit the number of concurrent connections permitted.
Resource exhaustion can occur when an unlimited number of concurrent requests are allowed on a website, facilitating a denial-of-service attack. Unless the number of requests is controlled, the web...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000001-WSR-000001
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ESX Agent Manager must limit the maximum size of a POST request.
The "maxPostSize" value is the maximum size in bytes of the POST that will be handled by the container FORM URL parameter parsing. Limit its size to reduce exposure to a denial-of-service attack. I...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000001-WSR-000002
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SRG-APP-000016-WSR-000005
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ESX Agent Manager must record user access in a format that enables monitoring of remote access.
Remote access can be exploited by an attacker to compromise the server. By recording all remote access activities, it will be possible to determine the attacker's location, intent, and degree of su...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000089-WSR-000047
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ESX Agent Manager must generate log records for system startup and shutdown.
Logging must be started as soon as possible when a service starts and as late as possible when a service is stopped. Many forms of suspicious actions can be detected by analyzing logs for unexpecte...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000119-WSR-000069
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SRG-APP-000131-WSR-000051
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ESX Agent Manager application files must be verified for their integrity.
Verifying that ESX Agent Manager application code is unchanged from its shipping state is essential for file validation and nonrepudiation of the ESX Agent Manager. There is no reason the MD5 hash ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000131-WSR-000073
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SRG-APP-000141-WSR-000015
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ESX Agent Manager must not be configured with unsupported realms.
ESX Agent Manager performs authentication at the application level and not through Tomcat. To eliminate unnecessary features and ensure ESX Agent Manager remains in its shipping state, the lack of ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141-WSR-000075
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SRG-APP-000141-WSR-000081
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ESX Agent Manager must have Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIMEs) that invoke operating system shell programs disabled.
MIME mappings tell ESX Agent Manager what type of program various file types and extensions are and what external utilities or programs are needed to execute the file type. By ensuring various shel...Rule Medium Severity
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