VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Secure Token Service (STS) Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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The vCenter STS 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 STS 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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The vCenter STS 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 -
SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095
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The vCenter STS 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 STS 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 STS 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 STS 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 STS 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 -
SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095
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The vCenter STS 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 STS 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 -
The vCenter STS 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
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