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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

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

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