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VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Lookup Service Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The vCenter Lookup service must configure the "setCharacterEncodingFilter" filter.

    <VulnDiscussion>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-000033-AS-000024

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The vCenter Lookup service cookies must have "http-only" flag set.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Cookies are a common way to save session state over the HTTP(S) protocol. If attackers can compromise session data stored in ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000033-AS-000024

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The vCenter Lookup service DefaultServlet must be set to "readonly" for "PUT" and "DELETE" commands.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The default servlet (or DefaultServlet) is a special servlet provided with Tomcat that is called when no other suitable page ...
    Rule Medium Severity

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