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VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance STS Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-APP-000001-WSR-000001

    Group
  • The Security Token Service 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

    Group
  • The Security Token Service 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

    Group
  • The Security Token Service 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 (DoS) att...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000001-WSR-000002

    Group
  • The Security Token Service must protect cookies from cross-site scripting (XSS).

    Cookies are a common way to save session state over the HTTP(S) protocol. If an attacker can compromise session data stored in a cookie, they are better able to launch an attack against the server ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000016-WSR-000005

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000089-WSR-000047

    Group

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