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VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance User Interface (UI) Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The vCenter UI service must limit the amount of time that each Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection is kept alive.

    <VulnDiscussion>Denial of service (DoS) is one threat against web servers. Many DoS attacks attempt to consume web server resources in such a...
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  • SRG-APP-000001-AS-000001

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

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;KeepAlive provides long lived HTTP sessions that allow multiple requests to be sent over the same connection. Enabling KeepAl...
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  • SRG-APP-000251-AS-000165

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  • The vCenter UI 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 ...
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  • The vCenter UI 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 ...
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  • SRG-APP-000033-AS-000024

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  • The vCenter UI service DefaultServlet must be set to "readonly" for "PUT" and "DELETE" commands.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The default servlet (or DefaultServlet) is a special servlet provided with Tomcat that is called when no other suitable page ...
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  • SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095

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  • The vCenter UI service shutdown port must be disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Tomcat by default listens on TCP port 8005 to accept shutdown requests. By connecting to this port and sending the SHUTDOWN c...
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