VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Secure Token Service (STS) Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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The vCenter STS service default ROOT web application must be removed.
<VulnDiscussion>The default ROOT web application includes the version of Tomcat being used, links to Tomcat documentation, examples, FAQs, an...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095
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The vCenter STS service default documentation must be removed.
<VulnDiscussion>Tomcat provides documentation and other directories in the default installation that do not serve a production use. These fil...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000380-AS-000088
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The vCenter STS service files must have permissions in an out-of-the-box state.
<VulnDiscussion>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 -
The vCenter STS service must disable "ALLOW_BACKSLASH".
<VulnDiscussion>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 STS service must enable "ENFORCE_ENCODING_IN_GET_WRITER".
<VulnDiscussion>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 -
SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The vCenter STS service manager webapp must be removed.
<VulnDiscussion>Tomcat provides management functionality through either a default manager webapp or through local editing of the configuratio...Rule Medium Severity
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