The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must enable "ENFORCE_ENCODING_IN_GET_WRITER".
An XCCDF Rule
Description
Some clients try to guess the character encoding of text media when the mandated default of ISO-8859-1 should be used. Some browsers will interpret as UTF-7 when the characters are safe for ISO-8859-1. This can create the potential for a XSS attack. To defend against this, enforce_encoding_in_get_writer must be set to true.
- ID
- SV-259034r934760_rule
- Version
- VCEM-80-000152
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Navigate to and open:
/etc/vmware-eam/catalina.properties
Update or remove the following line: