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VMware vSphere 7.0 VAMI Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-APP-000001-WSR-000001

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  • VAMI must limit the number of simultaneous requests.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Denial of service (DoS) is one threat against web servers. Many DoS attacks attempt to consume web server resources in such a...
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  • SRG-APP-000014-WSR-000006

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  • VAMI must be configured with FIPS 140-2 compliant ciphers for HTTPS connections.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Encryption of data in flight is an essential element of protecting information confidentiality. If a web server uses weak or ...
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  • SRG-APP-000015-WSR-000014

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  • VAMI must use cryptography to protect the integrity of remote sessions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Data exchanged between the user and the web server can range from static display data to credentials used to log in the hoste...
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  • SRG-APP-000016-WSR-000005

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  • VAMI must be configured to monitor remote access.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Remote access can be exploited by an attacker to compromise the server. By recording all remote access activities, it will be...
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  • SRG-APP-000089-WSR-000047

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  • VAMI must generate log records for system startup and shutdown.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Logging must be started as soon as possible when a service starts and when a service is stopped. Many forms of suspicious act...
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  • SRG-APP-000095-WSR-000056

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  • VAMI must produce log records containing sufficient information to establish what type of events occurred.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;After a security incident has occurred, investigators will often review log files to determine what happened. Understanding w...
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  • SRG-APP-000118-WSR-000068

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  • VAMI log files must only be accessible by privileged users.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Log data is essential in the investigation of events. If log data were to become compromised, competent forensic analysis and...
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  • SRG-APP-000125-WSR-000071

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  • The rsyslog must be configured to monitor VAMI logs.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;For performance reasons, rsyslog file monitoring is preferred over configuring VAMI to send events to a syslog facility. With...
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  • SRG-APP-000131-WSR-000051

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  • VAMI server binaries and libraries must be verified for their integrity.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Being able to verify that a patch, upgrade, certificate, etc., being added to the web server is unchanged from the producer o...
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  • SRG-APP-000141-WSR-000075

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  • VAMI must only load allowed server modules.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;A web server can provide many features, services, and processes. Some of these may be deemed unnecessary or too unsecure to r...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • SRG-APP-000141-WSR-000086

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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • SRG-APP-000251-WSR-000157

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  • 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 ...
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  • 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...
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  • SRG-APP-000266-WSR-000159

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  • VAMI must not be configured to use "mod_status".

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Any application providing too much information in error logs and in administrative messages to the screen risks compromising ...
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  • SRG-APP-000266-WSR-000160

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  • VAMI must have debug logging disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Information needed by an attacker to begin looking for possible vulnerabilities in a web server includes any information abou...
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  • SRG-APP-000435-WSR-000147

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  • VAMI must be protected from being stopped by a nonprivileged user.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;An attacker has at least two reasons to stop a web server. The first is to cause a denial of service, and the second is to pu...
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  • SRG-APP-000439-WSR-000156

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  • VAMI must implement Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 exclusively.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;TLS is a required transmission protocol for a web server hosting controlled information. The use of TLS provides confidential...
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  • SRG-APP-000516-WSR-000174

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  • VAMI must force clients to select the most secure cipher.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;During a Transport Layer Security (TLS) session negotiation, when choosing a cipher during a handshake, normally the client'...
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