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Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-APP-000251-AS-000165
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The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must set URIEncoding to UTF-8.
Invalid user input occurs when a user inserts data or characters into a hosted application's data entry field and the hosted application is unprepared to process that data. This results in unantici...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000266-AS-000169
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The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service "ErrorReportValve showServerInfo" must be set to "false".
The Error Report Valve is a simple error handler for HTTP status codes that will generate and return HTML error pages. It can also be configured to return predefined static HTML pages for specific ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000295-AS-000263
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The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must set an inactive timeout for sessions.
Leaving sessions open indefinitely is a major security risk. An attacker can easily use an already authenticated session to access the hosted application as the previously authenticated user. By cl...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000358-AS-000064
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The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must offload log records onto a different system or media from the system being logged.
Information system logging capability is critical for accurate forensic analysis. Log record content that may be necessary to satisfy the requirement of this control includes, but is not limited to...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000516-AS-000237
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The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must enable STRICT_SERVLET_COMPLIANCE.
Strict Servlet Compliance forces Tomcat to adhere to standards specifications including but not limited to RFC2109. RFC2109 sets the standard for HTTP session management. This setting affects sever...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000001-AS-000001
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The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must limit the amount of time that each Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection is kept alive.
Denial of service (DoS) is one threat against web servers. Many DoS attacks attempt to consume web server resources in such a way that no more resources are available to satisfy legitimate requests...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000001-AS-000001
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The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must limit the number of times that each Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection is kept alive.
KeepAlive provides long lived HTTP sessions that allow multiple requests to be sent over the same connection. Enabling KeepAlive mitigates the effects of several types of denial-of-service attacks....Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000251-AS-000165
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The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service must configure the "setCharacterEncodingFilter" filter.
Invalid user input occurs when a user inserts data or characters into a hosted application's data entry field and the hosted application is unprepared to process that data. This results in unantici...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000033-AS-000024
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The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service cookies must have the "http-only" flag set.
Cookies are a common way to save session state over the HTTP(S) protocol. If attackers can compromise session data stored in a cookie, they are better able to launch an attack against the server an...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-APP-000033-AS-000024
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The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service DefaultServlet must be set to "readonly" for "PUT" and "DELETE" commands.
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
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