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VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Perfcharts Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The vCenter Perfcharts service xpoweredBy attribute must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Individual connectors can be configured to display the Tomcat information to clients. This information can be used to identif...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The vCenter Perfcharts service example applications must be removed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Tomcat provides example applications, documentation, and other directories in the default installation that do not serve a pr...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The vCenter Perfcharts service files must have permissions in an out-of-the-box state.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;As a rule, accounts on a web server are to be kept to a minimum. Only administrators, web managers, developers, auditors, and...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The vCenter Perfcharts service must disable "ALLOW_BACKSLASH".

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When Tomcat is installed behind a proxy configured to only allow access to certain contexts (web applications), an HTTP reque...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The vCenter Perfcharts service must enable "ENFORCE_ENCODING_IN_GET_WRITER".

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Some clients try to guess the character encoding of text media when the mandated default of ISO-8859-1 should be used. Some b...
    Rule Medium Severity

The content of the drawer really is up to you. It could have form fields, definition lists, text lists, labels, charts, progress bars, etc. Spacing recommendation is 24px margins. You can put tabs in here, and can also make the drawer scrollable.

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