VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance ESX Agent Manager (EAM) Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095
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The vCenter ESX Agent Manager 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.Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000380-AS-000088
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SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237
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The vCenter ESX Agent Manager 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 -
SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237
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The vCenter ESX Agent Manager 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...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095
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SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095
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The vCenter ESX Agent Manager 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...Rule Medium Severity -
The vCenter ESX Agent Manager 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 ESX Agent Manager 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 ESX Agent Manager service "ErrorReportValve showServerInfo" must be set to "false".
The Error Report Valve is a simple error handler for HTTP status codes that will generate and return HTML error pages. It can also be configured to return predefined static HTML pages for specific ...Rule Medium Severity -
The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must limit the number of times that each Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection is kept alive.
KeepAlive provides long lived HTTP sessions that allow multiple requests to be sent over the same connection. Enabling KeepAlive mitigates the effects of several types of denial-of-service attacks....Rule Medium Severity -
The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service debug parameter must be disabled.
Information needed by an attacker to begin looking for possible vulnerabilities in a web server includes any information about the web server and plug-ins or modules being used. When debugging or t...Rule Medium Severity -
The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service deployXML attribute must be disabled.
The Host element controls deployment. Automatic deployment allows for simpler management but also makes it easier for an attacker to deploy a malicious application. Automatic deployment is controll...Rule Medium Severity -
The vCenter ESX Agent Manager 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...Rule Medium Severity -
The vCenter ESX Agent Manager 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...Rule Medium Severity
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