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VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Perfcharts Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-APP-000358-AS-000064

    Group
  • The vCenter Perfcharts 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
  • SRG-APP-000001-AS-000001

    Group
  • The vCenter Perfcharts 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 Perfcharts 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 Perfcharts service cookies must have "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

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