VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Lookup Service Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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SRG-APP-000380-AS-000088
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The vCenter Lookup 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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The vCenter Lookup service must disable "ALLOW_BACKSLASH".
When Tomcat is installed behind a proxy configured to only allow access to certain contexts (web applications), an HTTP request containing "/\../" may allow attackers to work around the proxy restr...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237
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The vCenter Lookup 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
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The vCenter Lookup 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
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The vCenter Lookup 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 Lookup 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 Lookup 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 -
The vCenter Lookup 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 Lookup 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 -
The vCenter Lookup 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 Lookup 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 -
The vCenter Lookup service DefaultServlet must be set to "readonly" for "PUT" and "DELETE" commands.
The default servlet (or DefaultServlet) is a special servlet provided with Tomcat that is called when no other suitable page is found in a particular folder. The DefaultServlet serves static resour...Rule Medium Severity -
The vCenter Lookup service debug parameter must be disabled.
Information needed by an attacker to begin looking for possible vulnerabilities in a web server includes any information about the web server and plug-ins or modules being used. When debugging or t...Rule Medium Severity
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