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VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Management Interface (VAMI) Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-APP-000125-WSR-000071

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The vCenter VAMI service must off-load log records onto a different system or media from the system being logged.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Protection of log data includes assuring log data is not accidentally lost or deleted. Backing up log records to an unrelated...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141-WSR-000081

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The vCenter VAMI service 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-000083

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The vCenter VAMI service 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

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The vCenter VAMI service must have Web Distributed Authoring (WebDAV) disabled.

    &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

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The vCenter VAMI service must protect system resources and privileged operations from hosted applications.

    &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

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