ESX Agent Manager must limit the amount of time that each TCP connection is kept alive.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-239372	VCEM-67-000001	SV-239372r674610_rule		Medium

Description
Denial of service 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. In Tomcat, the "connectionTimeout" attribute sets the number of milliseconds the server will wait after accepting a connection for the request URI line to be presented. This timeout will also be used when reading the request body (if any). This prevents idle sockets that are not sending HTTP requests from consuming system resources and potentially denying new connections.

Description

Denial of service 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. In Tomcat, the "connectionTimeout" attribute sets the number of milliseconds the server will wait after accepting a connection for the request URI line to be presented. This timeout will also be used when reading the request body (if any). This prevents idle sockets that are not sending HTTP requests from consuming system resources and potentially denying new connections.

STIG	Date
VMware vSphere 6.7 EAM Tomcat Security Technical Implementation Guide	2022-01-03

Details

Check Text ( C-42605r674608_chk )
At the command prompt, execute the following command: # xmllint --xpath '/Server/Service/Connector/@connectionTimeout' /usr/lib/vmware-eam/web/conf/server.xml Expected result: connectionTimeout="20000" If the output does not match the expected result, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-42564r674609_fix)
Navigate to and open: /usr/lib/vmware-eam/web/conf/server.xml Configure the node with the value: connectionTimeout="20000"