| Finding ID |
Severity |
Title |
Description |
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V-256810
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Medium |
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 resources as well as directory listings. The DefaultServlet is configured by default with the "readonly" parameter set to "true" where... |
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V-256809
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Medium |
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 observed by unauthorized parties due to the transmission of a cookie in... |
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V-256808
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Medium |
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 the Tomcat shutdown port feature is enabled, a shutdown signal can... |
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V-256807
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Medium |
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 ports that vSphere UI listens on are configured in the "catalina.properties" file and must be verified as accurate to their... |
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V-256806
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Medium |
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 availability and integrity of the hosted application.
vSphere UI syslog configuration is included by default as part of the VMware-visl-integration package.... |
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V-256805
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Medium |
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. vSphere UI configures log sizes and rotation appropriately as part of its installation routine. Verifying that the logging... |
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V-256804
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Medium |
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 trace information is enabled in a production web server, information about the web server, such as web server type,... |
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V-256803
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Medium |
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 TRACE operation against the web service will expose information that would be useful to perform a more targeted... |
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V-256802
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Medium |
vSphere UI must be configured to show error pages with minimal information. |
Web servers will often display error messages to client users with enough information to aid in the debugging of the error. The information given back in error messages may display the web server type, version, patches installed, plug-ins and modules installed, type of code being used by the hosted application,... |
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V-256801
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Medium |
vSphere UI must be configured to hide the server version. |
Web servers will often display error messages to client users with enough information to aid in the debugging of the error. The information given back in error messages may display the web server type, version, patches installed, plug-ins and modules installed, type of code being used by the hosted application,... |
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V-256800
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Medium |
The vSphere UI must not show directory listings. |
Enumeration techniques, such as URL parameter manipulation, rely on being able to obtain information about the web server's directory structure by locating directories without default pages. In this scenario, the web server will display to the user a listing of the files in the directory being accessed. Ensuring directory listing... |
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V-256799
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Medium |
vSphere UI must set the welcome-file node to a default web page. |
Enumeration techniques, such as URL parameter manipulation, rely on being able to obtain information about the web server's directory structure by locating directories without default pages. In this scenario, the web server will display to the user a listing of the files in the directory being accessed.
By having a... |
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V-256798
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Medium |
vSphere UI 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 unanticipated application behavior, potentially leading to an application compromise. Invalid user input is one of the primary methods employed... |
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V-256797
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Medium |
vSphere UI must limit the number of allowed connections. |
Limiting the number of established connections is a basic denial-of-service protection and a best practice. Servers where the limit is too high or unlimited can run out of system resources and negatively affect system availability. |
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V-256796
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Medium |
vSphere UI must fail to a known safe state if system initialization fails, shutdown fails, or aborts fail. |
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 server is hosting. For the Security Token Service, it is preferable that the service abort startup on any initialization failure rather than continuing in a... |
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V-256795
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Medium |
vSphere UI must restrict its cookie path. |
Cookies are used to exchange data between the web server and the client. Cookies, such as a session cookie, may contain session information and user credentials used to maintain a persistent connection between the user and the hosted application since HTTP/HTTPS is a stateless protocol.
vSphere UI is bound to... |
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V-256794
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Medium |
The vSphere UI directory tree 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 accounts on the machine hosting the web server. The resources to which these accounts have access must also be closely monitored and controlled. The vSphere... |
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V-256793
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Medium |
vSphere UI must not have any symbolic links in the web content directory tree. |
A web server is designed to deliver content and execute scripts or applications on the request of a client or user. Containing user requests to files in the directory tree of the hosted web application and limiting the execution of scripts and applications guarantees the user is not accessing information... |
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V-256792
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Medium |
vSphere UI must be configured with memory leak protection. |
The Java Runtime environment can cause a memory leak or lock files under certain conditions. Without memory leak protection, vSphere UI can continue to consume system resources, which will lead to "OutOfMemoryErrors" when reloading web applications.
Memory leaks occur when JRE code uses the context class loader to load a... |
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V-256791
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Medium |
vSphere UI must not have the Web Distributed Authoring (WebDAV) servlet installed. |
WebDAV is an extension to the HTTP protocol that, when developed, was meant to allow users to create, change, and move documents on a server, typically a web server or web share. WebDAV is not widely used and has serious security concerns because it may allow clients to modify unauthorized... |
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V-256790
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Medium |
vSphere UI must have mappings set for Java servlet pages. |
Resource mapping is the process of tying a particular file type to a process in the web server that can serve that type of file to a requesting client and identify which file types are not to be delivered to a client.
By not specifying which files can and cannot... |
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V-256789
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Medium |
vSphere UI must have Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) that invoke operating system shell programs disabled. |
MIME mappings tell the vSphere UI what type of program various file types and extensions are and what external utilities or programs are needed to execute the file type. By ensuring various shell script MIME types are not included in "web.xml", the server is protected against malicious users tricking the... |
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V-256788
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Medium |
vSphere UI must be configured to limit access to internal packages. |
The "package.access" entry in the "catalina.properties" file implements access control at the package level. When properly configured, a Security Exception will be reported if an errant or malicious webapp attempts to access the listed internal classes directly or if a new class is defined under the protected packages.
The vSphere... |
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V-256787
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Medium |
vSphere UI must not be configured with the "UserDatabaseRealm" enabled. |
The vSphere UI performs user authentication at the application level and not through Tomcat. By default, there is no configuration for the "UserDatabaseRealm" Tomcat authentication mechanism. To eliminate unnecessary features and ensure the vSphere UI remains in its shipping state, the lack of a "UserDatabaseRealm" configuration must be confirmed. |
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V-256786
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Medium |
vSphere UI plugins must be authorized before use. |
The vSphere UI ships with a number of plugins out of the box. Any additional plugins may affect the availability and integrity of the system and must be approved and documented by the information system security officer (ISSO) before deployment. |
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V-256785
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Medium |
vSphere UI application files must be verified for their integrity. |
Verifying the vSphere UI application code is unchanged from its shipping state is essential for file validation and nonrepudiation of the vSphere UI. There is no reason the MD5 hash of the RPM original files should be changed after installation, excluding configuration files. |
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V-256784
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Medium |
vSphere UI log files must only be accessible by privileged users. |
Log data is essential in the investigation of events. If log data were to become compromised, competent forensic analysis and discovery of the true source of potentially malicious system activity would be difficult, if not impossible, to achieve.
In addition, access to log records provides information an attacker could use... |
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V-256783
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Medium |
vSphere UI must generate log records for system startup and shutdown. |
Logging must be started as soon as possible when a service starts and when a service is stopped. Many forms of suspicious actions can be detected by analyzing logs for unexpected service starts and stops. Also, by starting to log immediately after a service starts, it becomes more difficult for... |
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V-256782
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Medium |
vSphere UI must record user access in a format that enables monitoring of remote access. |
Remote access can be exploited by an attacker to compromise the server. By recording all remote access activities, it will be possible to determine the attacker's location, intent, and degree of success.
Tomcat can be configured with an "AccessLogValve", a component that can be inserted into the request processing pipeline... |
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V-256781
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Medium |
vSphere UI must protect cookies from cross-site scripting (XSS). |
Cookies are a common way to save session state over the HTTP(S) protocol. If an attacker can compromise session data stored in a cookie, they are better able to launch an attack against the server and its applications. When a cookie is tagged with the "HttpOnly" flag, it tells the... |
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V-256780
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Medium |
vSphere UI must limit the maximum size of a POST request. |
The "maxPostSize" value is the maximum size in bytes of the POST which will be handled by the container FORM URL parameter parsing. Limit its size to reduce exposure to a denial-of-service attack.
If "maxPostSize" is not set, the default value of 2097152 (2MB) is used. The vSphere UI is... |
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V-256779
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Medium |
vSphere UI must limit the number of 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. Unless the number of requests is controlled, the web server can consume enough system resources to cause a system crash.
Mitigating this kind of attack will include limiting the number... |
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V-256778
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Medium |
vSphere UI 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.
In Tomcat, the "connectionTimeout" attribute sets the number of milliseconds the server will wait after accepting a... |
