Details

Limiting the number of established connections to the ESX Agent Manager is a basic denial-of-service protection. Servers where the limit is too high or unlimited can potentially run out of system resources and negatively affect system availability.

Solution

Navigate to and open:

/usr/lib/vmware-eam/web/conf/server.xml

Configure the node with the following value:

acceptCount=’300′

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_VMW_vSphere_6-7_STIG.zip

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: System and Communications Protection.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.

References

• 800-53|SC-5(1)
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-001094
• Rule-ID|SV-239390r674664_rule
• STIG-ID|VCEM-67-000019
• Vuln-ID|V-239390

Source

• Tenable.com/audits