VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance Perfcharts Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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SRG-APP-000266-WSR-000159
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Performance Charts must be configured to not show error reports.
Web servers will often display error messages to client users, including enough information to aid in the debugging of the error. The information given back in error messages may display the web se...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000266-WSR-000159
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Performance Charts must hide the server version.
Web servers will often display error messages to client users, including enough information to aid in the debugging of the error. The information given back in error messages may display the web se...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000266-WSR-000160
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Performance Charts must not enable support for TRACE requests.
"TRACE" is a technique for a user to request internal information about Tomcat. This is useful during product development but should not be enabled in production. Allowing an attacker to conduct a...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000266-WSR-000160
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Performance Charts must have the debug option turned off.
Information needed by an attacker to begin looking for possible vulnerabilities in a web server includes any information about the web server and plug-ins or modules being used. When debugging or t...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000357-WSR-000150
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SRG-APP-000358-WSR-000163
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Rsyslog must be configured to monitor and ship Performance Charts log files.
Performance Charts produces several logs that must be offloaded from the originating system. This information can then be used for diagnostic purposes, forensics purposes, or other purposes relevan...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000383-WSR-000175
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Performance Charts must be configured with the appropriate ports.
Web servers provide numerous processes, features, and functionalities that use TCP/IP ports. Some of these processes may be deemed unnecessary or too unsecure to run on a production system. The por...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000435-WSR-000147
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Performance Charts must disable the shutdown port.
An attacker has at least two reasons to stop a web server. The first is to cause a denial of service, and the second is to put in place changes the attacker made to the web server configuration. I...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000439-WSR-000155
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Performance Charts must set the secure flag for cookies.
The secure flag is an option that can be set by the application server when sending a new cookie to the user within an HTTP response. The purpose of the secure flag is to prevent cookies from being...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-WSR-000174
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Performance Charts 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 -
Performance Charts 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
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