VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance STS Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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The Security Token Service must have Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) that invoke operating system shell programs disabled.
MIME mappings tell the Security Token Service 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 ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141-WSR-000083
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The Security Token Service must have mappings set for Java servlet pages.
Resource mapping is the process of tying a particular file type to a process in the web server that can serve that type of file to a requesting client and identify which file types are not to be de...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141-WSR-000085
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The Security Token Service must not have the Web Distributed Authoring (WebDAV) servlet installed.
WebDAV is an extension to the HTTP protocol that, when developed, was meant to allow users to create, change, and move documents on a server, typically a web server or web share. WebDAV is not wide...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141-WSR-000086
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The Security Token Service must be configured with memory leak protection.
The Java Runtime environment can cause a memory leak or lock files under certain conditions. Without memory leak protection, the Security Token Service can continue to consume system resources whic...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141-WSR-000087
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SRG-APP-000211-WSR-000030
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The Security Token Service directory tree must have permissions in an out-of-the-box state.
As a rule, accounts on a web server are to be kept to a minimum. Only administrators, web managers, developers, auditors, and web authors require accounts on the machine hosting the web server. The...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000225-WSR-000140
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The Security Token Service must fail to a known safe state if system initialization fails, shutdown fails, or aborts fail.
Determining a safe state for failure and weighing that against a potential denial of service for users depends on what type of application the web server is hosting. For the Security Token Service,...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000246-WSR-000149
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The Security Token Service must limit the number of allowed connections.
Limiting the number of established connections to the Security Token Service is a basic denial-of-service protection. Servers where the limit is too high or unlimited can potentially run out of sys...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000251-WSR-000157
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The Security Token Service must set "URIEncoding" to UTF-8.
Invalid user input occurs when a user inserts data or characters into a hosted application's data entry field and the hosted application is unprepared to process that data. This results in unantici...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000251-WSR-000157
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SRG-APP-000266-WSR-000142
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The Security Token Service must set the welcome-file node to a default web page.
Enumeration techniques, such as Uniform Resource Locator (URL) parameter manipulation, rely on being able to obtain information about the web server's directory structure by locating directories wi...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000266-WSR-000142
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