I - Mission Critical Classified
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-APP-000266-AS-000169
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The vCenter Perfcharts service "ErrorReportValve showServerInfo" must be set to "false".
<VulnDiscussion>The Error Report Valve is a simple error handler for HTTP status codes that will generate and return HTML error pages. It can...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000295-AS-000263
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The vCenter Perfcharts service must set an inactive timeout for sessions.
<VulnDiscussion>Leaving sessions open indefinitely is a major security risk. An attacker can easily use an already authenticated session to a...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000358-AS-000064
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The vCenter Perfcharts service must offload log records onto a different system or media from the system being logged.
<VulnDiscussion>Information system logging capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Log record content that may be necessary to...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237
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The vCenter Perfcharts service must enable "STRICT_SERVLET_COMPLIANCE".
<VulnDiscussion>Strict Servlet Compliance forces Tomcat to adhere to standards specifications including but not limited to RFC2109. RFC2109 s...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000001-AS-000001
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The vCenter Perfcharts 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...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000001-AS-000001
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
The vCenter Perfcharts 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
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The vCenter Perfcharts service must configure the "setCharacterEncodingFilter" filter.
<VulnDiscussion>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
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The vCenter Perfcharts service cookies must have "http-only" flag set.
<VulnDiscussion>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 -
SRG-APP-000033-AS-000024
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The vCenter Perfcharts service DefaultServlet must be set to "readonly" for "PUT" and "DELETE" commands.
<VulnDiscussion>The default servlet (or DefaultServlet) is a special servlet provided with Tomcat that is called when no other suitable page ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095
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The vCenter Perfcharts service shutdown port must be disabled.
<VulnDiscussion>Tomcat by default listens on TCP port 8005 to accept shutdown requests. By connecting to this port and sending the SHUTDOWN c...Rule Medium Severity
Node 2
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.