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VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Secure Token Service (STS) Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The vCenter STS service must limit the number of times that each Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection is kept alive.

    <VulnDiscussion>KeepAlive provides long lived HTTP sessions that allow multiple requests to be sent over the same connection. Enabling KeepAl...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000251-AS-000165

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The vCenter STS service must configure the "setCharacterEncodingFilter" filter.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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 STS 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

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