VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Secure Token Service (STS) Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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The vCenter STS 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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The vCenter STS 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 STS 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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SRG-APP-000001-AS-000001
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The vCenter STS 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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The vCenter STS 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
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