VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance User Interface (UI) Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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The vCenter UI 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-000516-AS-000237
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SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237
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The vCenter UI 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 UI 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 UI service must set URIEncoding to UTF-8.
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 -
The vCenter UI service must set an inactive timeout for sessions.
Leaving sessions open indefinitely is a major security risk. An attacker can easily use an already authenticated session to access the hosted application as the previously authenticated user. By cl...Rule Medium Severity -
The vCenter UI 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
Node 2
The content of the drawer really is up to you. It could have form fields, definition lists, text lists, labels, charts, progress bars, etc. Spacing recommendation is 24px margins. You can put tabs in here, and can also make the drawer scrollable.