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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

  • SRG-APP-000358-AS-000064

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  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must offload log records onto a different system or media from the system being logged.

    Information system logging capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Log record content that may be necessary to satisfy the requirement of this control includes, but is not limited to...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237

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  • SRG-APP-000001-AS-000001

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000001-AS-000001

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  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must limit the number of times that each Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection is kept alive.

    KeepAlive provides long lived HTTP sessions that allow multiple requests to be sent over the same connection. Enabling KeepAlive mitigates the effects of several types of denial-of-service attacks....
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000251-AS-000165

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  • SRG-APP-000033-AS-000024

    Group
  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service cookies must have the "http-only" flag set.

    Cookies are a common way to save session state over the HTTP(S) protocol. If attackers can compromise session data stored in a cookie, they are better able to launch an attack against the server an...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000033-AS-000024

    Group

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