VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Perfcharts Security Technical Implementation Guide

Overview

VersionDateFinding Count (33)Downloads
12023-10-29CAT I (High): 0CAT II (Medium): 33CAT III (Low): 0
STIG Description
This Security Technical Implementation Guide is published as a tool to improve the security of Department of Defense (DOD) information systems. The requirements are derived from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53 and related documents. Comments or proposed revisions to this document should be sent via email to the following address: disa.stig_spt@mail.mil.
ClassifiedPublicSensitive
I - Mission Critical ClassifiedI - Mission Critical PublicI - Mission Critical Sensitive
II - Mission Support ClassifiedII - Mission Support PublicII - Mission Support Sensitive
III - Administrative ClassifiedIII - Administrative PublicIII - Administrative Sensitive

Findings - MAC I - Mission Critical Public

Finding IDSeverityTitleDescription
V-259071
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts service must limit the number of maximum concurrent connections permitted.Resource exhaustion can occur when an unlimited number of concurrent requests are allowed on a website, facilitating a denial-of-service attack. Unles...
V-259072
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts service cookies must have secure flag set.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 t...
V-259073
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts service must initiate session logging upon startup.Logging must be started as soon as possible when a service starts and as late as possible when a service is stopped. Many forms of suspicious actions ...
V-259074
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts service must produce log records containing sufficient information regarding event details.Remote access can be exploited by an attacker to compromise the server. By recording all remote access activities, it will be possible to determine th...
V-259075
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts service logs folder permissions must be set correctly.Log data is essential in the investigation of events. The accuracy of the information is always pertinent. One of the first steps an attacker will tak...
V-259076
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts service must limit privileges for creating or modifying hosted application shared files.Application servers have the ability to specify that the hosted applications use shared libraries. The application server must have a capability to di...
V-259077
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts service must disable stack tracing.Stack tracing provides debugging information from the application call stacks when a runtime error is encountered. If stack tracing is left enabled, T...
V-259078
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts service must be configured to use a specified IP address and port.The server must be configured to listen on a specified IP address and port. Without specifying an IP address and port for server to use, the server wi...
V-259079
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts service must be configured to limit data exposure between applications.If RECYCLE_FACADES is true or if a security manager is in use, a new facade object will be created for each request. This reduces the chances that a b...
V-259080
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts service must be configured to fail to a known safe state if system initialization fails.Determining a safe state for failure and weighing that against a potential denial of service for users depends on what type of application the web ser...
V-259081
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts 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...
V-259082
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts 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 re...
V-259083
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts 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 applicat...
V-259084
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts 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 ...
V-259085
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts 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...
V-259086
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts 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 resourc...
V-259087
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts 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...
V-259088
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts 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...
V-259089
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts service cookies must have "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...
V-259090
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts 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 ...
V-259091
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts service shutdown port must be disabled.Tomcat by default listens on TCP port 8005 to accept shutdown requests. By connecting to this port and sending the SHUTDOWN command, all applications ...
V-259092
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts service debug parameter must be disabled.Information needed by an attacker to begin looking for possible vulnerabilities in a web server includes any information about the web server and plug...
V-259093
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts service directory listings parameter must be disabled.Enumeration techniques, such as URL parameter manipulation, rely on being able to obtain information about the web server's directory structure by loc...
V-259094
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts service deployXML attribute must be disabled.The Host element controls deployment. Automatic deployment allows for simpler management but also makes it easier for an attacker to deploy a maliciou...
V-259095
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts service must have Autodeploy disabled.Tomcat allows auto-deployment of applications while it is running. This can allow untested or malicious applications to be automatically loaded into p...
V-259096
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts service xpoweredBy attribute must be disabled.Individual connectors can be configured to display the Tomcat information to clients. This information can be used to identify server versions that ca...
V-259097
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts service example applications must be removed.Tomcat provides example applications, documentation, and other directories in the default installation that do not serve a production use. These files...
V-259098
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts service default documentation must be removed.Tomcat provides documentation and other directories in the default installation that do not serve a production use. These files must be deleted....
V-259099
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts service files must have permissions in an out-of-the-box state.As a rule, accounts on a web server are to be kept to a minimum. Only administrators, web managers, developers, auditors, and web authors require acco...
V-259100
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts service must disable "ALLOW_BACKSLASH".When Tomcat is installed behind a proxy configured to only allow access to certain contexts (web applications), an HTTP request containing "/\../" may...
V-259101
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts service must enable "ENFORCE_ENCODING_IN_GET_WRITER".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...
V-259102
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts service manager webapp must be removed.Tomcat provides management functionality through either a default manager webapp or through local editing of the configuration files. The manager weba...
V-259103
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The vCenter Perfcharts service host-manager webapp must be removed.Tomcat provides host management functionality through either a default host-manager webapp or through local editing of the configuration files. The ho...