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-000001-WSR-000001
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The vCenter VAMI service must limit the number of allowed simultaneous session requests.
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-000015-WSR-000014
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SRG-APP-000016-WSR-000005
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The vCenter VAMI service must generate information to monitor remote access.
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 -
SRG-APP-000095-WSR-000056
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SRG-APP-000118-WSR-000068
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The vCenter VAMI service log files must only be accessible by privileged users.
Log data is essential in the investigation of events. If log data were to become compromised, then competent forensic analysis and discovery of the true source of potentially malicious system activ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000125-WSR-000071
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The vCenter VAMI service must off-load log records onto a different system or media from the system being logged.
Protection of log data includes assuring log data is not accidentally lost or deleted. Backing up log records to an unrelated system or onto separate media than the system the web server is actuall...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141-WSR-000081
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SRG-APP-000141-WSR-000083
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The vCenter VAMI service must have resource mappings set to disable the serving of certain file types.
Resource mapping is the process of tying a particular file type to a process in the web server that can serve that type of file to a requesting client and to identify which file types are not to be...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141-WSR-000085
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The vCenter VAMI service must have Web Distributed Authoring (WebDAV) disabled.
A web server can be installed with functionality that, by its nature, is not secure. WebDAV is an extension to the HTTP protocol that, when developed, was meant to allow users to create, change, an...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141-WSR-000086
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The vCenter VAMI service must protect system resources and privileged operations from hosted applications.
Most of the attention to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks focuses on ensuring that systems and applications are not victims of these attacks. However, these systems and applications must also be sec...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000176-WSR-000096
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The vCenter VAMI service must restrict access to the web server's private key.
The web server's private key is used to prove the identity of the server to clients and securely exchange the shared secret key used to encrypt communications between the web server and clients. By...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000179-WSR-000111
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