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VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance Perfcharts Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-APP-000001-WSR-000001

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Performance Charts must limit the amount of time that each Transport Control Protocol (TCP) connection is kept alive.

    &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...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000001-WSR-000001

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Performance Charts must limit the number of concurrent connections permitted.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Resource exhaustion can occur when an unlimited number of concurrent requests are allowed on a website, facilitating a denial...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000001-WSR-000001

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Performance Charts must limit the maximum size of a POST request.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The "maxPostSize" value is the maximum size in bytes of the POST that will be handled by the container FORM URL parameter par...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000001-WSR-000002

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Performance Charts must protect cookies from cross-site scripting (XSS).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Cookies are a common way to save session state over the HTTP(S) protocol. If an attacker can compromise session data stored i...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000016-WSR-000005

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • Performance Charts must record user access in a format that enables monitoring of 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...
    Rule Medium Severity

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