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VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance ESX Agent Manager (EAM) Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must be configured to fail to a known safe state if system initialization fails.

    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. It is preferable that the servi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service "ErrorReportValve showServerInfo" must be set to "false".

    The Error Report Valve is a simple error handler for HTTP status codes that will generate and return HTML error pages. It can also be configured to return predefined static HTML pages for specific ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must enable STRICT_SERVLET_COMPLIANCE.

    Strict Servlet Compliance forces Tomcat to adhere to standards specifications including but not limited to RFC2109. RFC2109 sets the standard for HTTP session management. This setting affects sever...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager 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
  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must configure the "setCharacterEncodingFilter" filter.

    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

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