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-000001-AS-000001
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The vCenter Lookup 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 -
SRG-APP-000033-AS-000024
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The vCenter Lookup 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 Lookup 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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SRG-APP-000133-AS-000092
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SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095
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The vCenter Lookup 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 Lookup 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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The vCenter Lookup 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 -
SRG-APP-000225-AS-000166
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The vCenter Lookup 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 -
SRG-APP-000251-AS-000165
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SRG-APP-000266-AS-000169
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The vCenter Lookup 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 -
SRG-APP-000295-AS-000263
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The vCenter Lookup 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 Lookup 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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The vCenter Lookup 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 -
SRG-APP-000001-AS-000001
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SRG-APP-000251-AS-000165
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The vCenter Lookup 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 -
SRG-APP-000033-AS-000024
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The vCenter Lookup service cookies must have "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 Lookup 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 Lookup 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 Lookup 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 Lookup 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 Lookup 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 Lookup 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 Lookup 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 Lookup 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
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