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VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance ESX Agent Manager (EAM) Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-APP-000266-AS-000169

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000295-AS-000263

    Group
  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager 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

    Group
  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager 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
  • SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237

    Group
  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must enable STRICT_SERVLET_COMPLIANCE.

    Strict Servlet Compliance forces Tomcat to adhere to standards specifications including but not limited to RFC2109. RFC2109 sets the standard for HTTP session management. This setting affects sever...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000001-AS-000001

    Group
  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager 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

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000251-AS-000165

    Group
  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must configure the "setCharacterEncodingFilter" filter.

    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-000033-AS-000024

    Group
  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service cookies must have the "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
  • SRG-APP-000033-AS-000024

    Group
  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager 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
  • SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095

    Group
  • The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service shutdown port must be disabled.

    Tomcat by default listens on TCP port 8005 to accept shutdown requests. By connecting to this port and sending the SHUTDOWN command, all applications within Tomcat are halted. The shutdown port is ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095

    Group
  • SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095

    Group

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