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1.32 VCLU-80-000152

Information

The vCenter Lookup service must enable "ENFORCE_ENCODING_IN_GET_WRITER".

GROUP ID: V-259068RULE ID: SV-259068r961863

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 UTF-7 when the characters are safe for ISO-8859-1. This can create the potential for a XSS attack. To defend against this, enforce_encoding_in_get_writer must be set to true.

Solution

Navigate to and open:

/usr/lib/vmware-lookupsvc/conf/catalina.properties

Update or remove the following line:

org.apache.catalina.connector.response.ENFORCE_ENCODING_IN_GET_WRITER=true

Restart the service with the following command:

vmon-cli --restart lookupsvc

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/23617

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000366, Rule-ID|SV-259068r961863_rule, STIG-ID|VCLU-80-000152, Vuln-ID|V-259068

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 56b5d2365b4c64b5eacd5039008f85cd3b93222ad13e7d177d11d07a77bdff43