VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Management Interface (VAMI) Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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SRG-APP-000001-WSR-000001
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The vCenter VAMI service must limit the number of allowed simultaneous session requests.
<VulnDiscussion>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-000015-WSR-000014
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The vCenter VAMI service must use cryptography to protect the integrity of remote sessions.
<VulnDiscussion>Data exchanged between the user and the web server can range from static display data to credentials used to log in the hoste...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000016-WSR-000005
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The vCenter VAMI service must generate information to monitor remote access.
<VulnDiscussion>Remote access can be exploited by an attacker to compromise the server. By recording all remote access activities, it will be...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000095-WSR-000056
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The vCenter VAMI service must produce log records containing sufficient information to establish what type of events occurred.
<VulnDiscussion>Web server logging capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Without sufficient and accurate information, a corr...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000118-WSR-000068
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The vCenter VAMI service log files must only be accessible by privileged users.
<VulnDiscussion>Log data is essential in the investigation of events. If log data were to become compromised, then competent forensic analysi...Rule Medium Severity -
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.
<VulnDiscussion>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".
<VulnDiscussion>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.
<VulnDiscussion>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.
<VulnDiscussion>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.
<VulnDiscussion>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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