VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Lookup Service Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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The vCenter Lookup 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 -
SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095
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The vCenter Lookup service must have Autodeploy disabled.
Tomcat allows auto-deployment of applications while it is running. This can allow untested or malicious applications to be automatically loaded into production. Autodeploy must be disabled in produ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095
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The vCenter Lookup service xpoweredBy attribute must be disabled.
Individual connectors can be configured to display the Tomcat information to clients. This information can be used to identify server versions that can be useful to attackers for identifying vulner...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095
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The vCenter Lookup service example applications must be removed.
Tomcat provides example applications, 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-000141-AS-000095
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SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095
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The vCenter Lookup 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 Lookup 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 Lookup 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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The vCenter Lookup 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 -
SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095
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The vCenter Lookup service must limit the number of maximum concurrent connections permitted.
Resource exhaustion can occur when an unlimited number of concurrent requests are allowed on a website, facilitating a denial-of-service attack. Unless the number of requests is controlled, the web...Rule Medium Severity -
The vCenter Lookup service must initiate session logging upon startup.
Logging must be started as soon as possible when a service starts and as late as possible when a service is stopped. Many forms of suspicious actions can be detected by analyzing logs for unexpecte...Rule Medium Severity
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