III - Administrative Sensitive
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-APP-000266-WSR-000160
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vSphere UI must not enable support for TRACE requests.
"TRACE" is a technique for a user to request internal information about Tomcat. This is useful during product development but should not be enabled in production. Allowing an attacker to conduct a ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000266-WSR-000160
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vSphere UI must have the debug option turned off.
Information needed by an attacker to begin looking for possible vulnerabilities in a web server includes any information about the web server and plug-ins or modules being used. When debugging or t...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000357-WSR-000150
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vSphere UI must use a logging mechanism that is configured to allocate log record storage capacity large enough to accommodate the logging requirements of the web server.
To ensure the logging mechanism used by the web server has sufficient storage capacity in which to write the logs, the logging mechanism must be able to allocate log record storage capacity. vSpher...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000358-WSR-000163
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vSphere UI log files must be moved to a permanent repository in accordance with site policy.
vSphere UI produces several logs that must be offloaded from the originating system. This information can then be used for diagnostic, forensics, or other purposes relevant to ensuring the availabi...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000383-WSR-000175
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vSphere UI must be configured with the appropriate ports.
Web servers provide numerous processes, features, and functionalities that use TCP/IP ports. Some of these processes may be deemed unnecessary or too unsecure to run on a production system. The por...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000435-WSR-000147
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vSphere UI must disable the shutdown port.
An attacker has at least two reasons to stop a web server. The first is to cause a denial of service, and the second is to put in place changes the attacker made to the web server configuration. If...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000439-WSR-000155
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vSphere UI must set the secure flag for cookies.
The secure flag is an option that can be set by the application server when sending a new cookie to the user within an HTTP response. The purpose of the secure flag is to prevent cookies from being...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-WSR-000174
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The vSphere UI default servlet must be set to "readonly".
The default servlet (or DefaultServlet) is a special servlet provided with Tomcat that is called when no other suitable page is found in a particular folder. The DefaultServlet serves static resour...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.