VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance ESX Agent Manager (EAM) Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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SRG-APP-000001-AS-000001
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SRG-APP-000033-AS-000024
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The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service cookies must have secure flag set.
The secure flag is an option that can be set by the application server when sending a new cookie to the user within an HTTP Response. The purpose of the secure flag is to prevent cookies from being...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000092-AS-000053
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The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must initiate session logging upon startup.
Logging must be started as soon as possible when a service starts and as late as possible when a service is stopped. Many forms of suspicious actions can be detected by analyzing logs for unexpecte...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000095-AS-000056
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SRG-APP-000118-AS-000078
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The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service logs folder permissions must be set correctly.
Log data is essential in the investigation of events. The accuracy of the information is always pertinent. One of the first steps an attacker will take is the modification or deletion of log record...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000133-AS-000092
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SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095
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The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must disable stack tracing.
Stack tracing provides debugging information from the application call stacks when a runtime error is encountered. If stack tracing is left enabled, Tomcat will provide this call stack information ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000142-AS-000014
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The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must be configured to use a specified IP address and port.
The server must be configured to listen on a specified IP address and port. Without specifying an IP address and port for server to use, the server will listen on all IP addresses available. Acces...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000223-AS-000150
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SRG-APP-000225-AS-000166
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SRG-APP-000251-AS-000165
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The vCenter ESX Agent Manager 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-000266-AS-000169
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SRG-APP-000295-AS-000263
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The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must set an inactive timeout for sessions.
Leaving sessions open indefinitely is a major security risk. An attacker can easily use an already authenticated session to access the hosted application as the previously authenticated user. By cl...Rule Medium Severity -
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
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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
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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
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SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095
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The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service shutdown port must be disabled.
Tomcat by default listens on TCP port 8005 to accept shutdown requests. By connecting to this port and sending the SHUTDOWN command, all applications within Tomcat are halted. The shutdown port is ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095
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SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095
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The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service directory listings parameter must be disabled.
Enumeration techniques, such as URL parameter manipulation, rely on being able to obtain information about the web server's directory structure by locating directories without default pages. In thi...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095
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The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service deployXML attribute must be disabled.
The Host element controls deployment. Automatic deployment allows for simpler management but also makes it easier for an attacker to deploy a malicious application. Automatic deployment is controll...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095
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The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must have Autodeploy disabled.
Tomcat allows auto-deployment of applications while it is running. This can allow untested or malicious applications to be automatically loaded into production. Autodeploy must be disabled in produ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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