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VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Lookup Service Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The vCenter Lookup 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 Lookup 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 Lookup 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 Lookup 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
  • The vCenter Lookup 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 Lookup service default ROOT web application must be removed.

    The default ROOT web application includes the version of Tomcat being used, links to Tomcat documentation, examples, FAQs, and mailing lists. The default ROOT web application must be removed from a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The vCenter Lookup 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 Lookup 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

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