VMware vSphere 7.0 ESXi Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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The ESXi host must produce audit records containing information to establish what type of events occurred.
Without establishing what types of events occurred, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000037-VMM-000150...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000069-VMM-000360
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SRG-OS-000077-VMM-000440
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SRG-OS-000095-VMM-000480
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The ESXi host must disable the Managed Object Browser (MOB).
The MOB provides a way to explore the object model used by the VMkernel to manage the host and enables configurations to be changed. This interface is meant to be used primarily for debugging the v...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000095-VMM-000480
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SRG-OS-000095-VMM-000480
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The ESXi host must disable ESXi Shell unless needed for diagnostics or troubleshooting.
The ESXi Shell is an interactive command line environment available locally from the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) or remotely via SSH. Activities performed from the ESXi Shell bypass vCente...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000104-VMM-000500
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The ESXi host must use Active Directory for local user authentication.
Join ESXi hosts to an Active Directory domain to eliminate the need to create and maintain multiple local user accounts. Using Active Directory for user authentication simplifies the ESXi host conf...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000104-VMM-000500
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SRG-OS-000104-VMM-000500
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Active Directory ESX Admin group membership must not be used when adding ESXi hosts to Active Directory.
When adding ESXi hosts to Active Directory, all user/group accounts assigned to the Active Directory group \"ESX Admins\" will have full administrative access to the host. If this group is not co...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000163-VMM-000700
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The ESXi host must set a timeout to automatically disable idle shell sessions after two minutes.
If a user forgets to log out of their local or remote ESXi Shell session, the idle connection will remain open indefinitely and increase the likelihood of inappropriate host access via session hija...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000163-VMM-000700
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The ESXi host must terminate shell services after 10 minutes.
When the ESXi Shell or Secure Shell (SSH) services are enabled on a host, they will run indefinitely. To avoid having these services left running, set the "ESXiShellTimeOut". The "ESXiShellTimeOut"...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000163-VMM-000700
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The ESXi host must log out of the console UI after two minutes.
When the Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) is enabled and logged in, it should be automatically logged out if left logged on to avoid access by unauthorized persons. The "DcuiTimeOut" setting de...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000341-VMM-001220
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