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VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance Perfcharts Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • 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

    Group
  • 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

    Group
  • 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

    Group
  • 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

    Group
  • 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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