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VMware vSphere 7.0 VAMI Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-APP-000141-WSR-000081

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  • VAMI must have Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) that invoke operating system shell programs disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Controlling what a user of a hosted application can access is part of the security posture of the web server. Any time a user...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141-WSR-000081

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  • VAMI must explicitly disable Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) mime mappings based on "Content-Type".

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Controlling what a user of a hosted application can access is part of the security posture of the web server. Any time a user...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141-WSR-000082

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  • VAMI must remove all mappings to unused scripts.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Scripts allow server-side processing on behalf of the hosted application user or as processes needed in the implementation of...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141-WSR-000083

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  • VAMI must have resource mappings set to disable the serving of certain file types.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Resource mapping is the process of tying a particular file type to a process in the web server that can serve that type of fi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141-WSR-000085

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  • VAMI must not have the Web Distributed Authoring (WebDAV) servlet installed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;A web server can be installed with functionality that, by its nature, is not secure. WebDAV is an extension to the HTTP proto...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141-WSR-000086

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    Group
  • VAMI must prevent hosted applications from exhausting system resources.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Most of the attention to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks focuses on ensuring that systems and applications are not victims of...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000176-WSR-000096

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  • VAMI must protect the keystore from unauthorized access.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The web server's private key is used to prove the identity of the server to clients and securely exchange the shared secret k...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000246-WSR-000149

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  • VAMI must protect against or limit the effects of HTTP types of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In UNIX and related computer operating systems, a file descriptor is an indicator used to access a file or other input/output...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000251-WSR-000157

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    Group
  • VAMI must set the encoding for all text Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) types to UTF-8.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Invalid user input occurs when a user inserts data or characters into a hosted application's data entry field and the hosted ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000266-WSR-000142

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  • VAMI must disable directory browsing.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The goal is to completely control the web user's experience in navigating any portion of the web document root directories. E...
    Rule Medium Severity

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