VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Management Interface (VAMI) Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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SRG-APP-000246-WSR-000149
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The vCenter VAMI service must restrict the ability of users to launch Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against other information systems or networks.
In UNIX and related computer operating systems, a file descriptor is an indicator used to access a file or other input/output resource, such as a pipe or network connection. File descriptors index ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000251-WSR-000157
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The vCenter VAMI service must set the encoding for all text mime types 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-WSR-000142
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The vCenter VAMI service must disable directory listing.
The goal is to completely control the web user's experience in navigating any portion of the web document root directories. Ensuring all web content directories have at least the equivalent of an "...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000266-WSR-000159
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The vCenter VAMI service must not be configured to use the "mod_status" module.
Any application providing too much information in error logs and in administrative messages to the screen risks compromising the data and security of the application and system. VAMI must only gen...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000266-WSR-000160
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SRG-APP-000516-WSR-000174
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The vCenter VAMI service must enable honoring the SSL cipher order.
During a Transport Layer Security (TLS) session negotiation, when choosing a cipher during a handshake, normally the client's preference is used. This is potentially problematic as a malicious, dat...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-WSR-000174
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The vCenter VAMI service must disable client initiated TLS renegotiation.
All versions of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and TLS protocols (up to and including TLS 1.2) are vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack (CVE-2009-3555) during a renegotiation. This vulnerabilit...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-WSR-000174
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The vCenter VAMI service must be configured to hide the server type and version in client responses.
Web servers will often display error messages to client users, displaying enough information to aid in the debugging of the error. The information given back in error messages may display the web s...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-WSR-000174
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The vCenter VAMI service must implement HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS).
HSTS instructs web browsers to only use secure connections for all future requests when communicating with a website. Doing so helps prevent SSL protocol attacks, SSL stripping, cookie hijacking, a...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-WSR-000174
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SRG-APP-000516-WSR-000174
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The vCenter VAMI service must protect against MIME sniffing.
MIME sniffing was, and still is, a technique used by some web browsers to examine the content of a particular asset. This is done for the purpose of determining an asset's file format. This techniq...Rule Medium Severity
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