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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 xpoweredBy attribute must be disabled.

    Individual connectors can be configured to display the Tomcat information to clients. This information can be used to identify server versions that can be useful to attackers for identifying vulner...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095

    Group
  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service example applications must be removed.

    Tomcat provides example applications, documentation, and other directories in the default installation that do not serve a production use. These files must be deleted.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095

    Group
  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service default ROOT web application must be removed.

    The default ROOT web application includes the version of Tomcat being used, links to Tomcat documentation, examples, FAQs, and mailing lists. The default ROOT web application must be removed from a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095

    Group
  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service default documentation must be removed.

    Tomcat provides documentation and other directories in the default installation that do not serve a production use. These files must be deleted.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000380-AS-000088

    Group
  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service files 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-000516-AS-000237

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237

    Group
  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must enable "ENFORCE_ENCODING_IN_GET_WRITER".

    Some clients try to guess the character encoding of text media when the mandated default of ISO-8859-1 should be used. Some browsers will interpret as UTF-7 when the characters are safe for ISO-885...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095

    Group
  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service manager webapp must be removed.

    Tomcat provides management functionality through either a default manager webapp or through local editing of the configuration files. The manager webapp files must be deleted, and administration mu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095

    Group
  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service host-manager webapp must be removed.

    Tomcat provides host management functionality through either a default host-manager webapp or through local editing of the configuration files. The host-manager webapp files must be deleted, and ad...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must limit the number of maximum 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
  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must produce log records containing sufficient information regarding event details.

    Remote access can be exploited by an attacker to compromise the server. By recording all remote access activities, it will be possible to determine the attacker's location, intent, and degree of su...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must limit privileges for creating or modifying hosted application shared files.

    Application servers have the ability to specify that the hosted applications use shared libraries. The application server must have a capability to divide roles based upon duties wherein one projec...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must be configured to limit data exposure between applications.

    If RECYCLE_FACADES is true or if a security manager is in use, a new facade object will be created for each request. This reduces the chances that a bug in an application might expose data from one...
    Rule Medium Severity

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