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VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Secure Token Service (STS) Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095

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  • The vCenter STS 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...
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  • SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095

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  • The vCenter STS 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...
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  • SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095

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  • The vCenter STS 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.
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  • SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095

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  • The vCenter STS 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...
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  • SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095

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  • The vCenter STS 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.
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  • SRG-APP-000380-AS-000088

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  • The vCenter STS 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...
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  • SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237

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  • SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237

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  • The vCenter STS 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...
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  • SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095

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  • The vCenter STS 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...
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  • The vCenter STS 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...
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  • The vCenter STS 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...
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