VMware vSphere 8.0 ESXi Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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The ESXi 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-00015...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000069-VMM-000360
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SRG-OS-000077-VMM-000440
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The ESXi host must prohibit password reuse for a minimum of five generations.
If a user or root used the same password continuously or was allowed to change it back shortly after being forced to change it to something else, it would provide a potential intruder with the oppo...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000095-VMM-000480
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The ESXi host must be configured to disable nonessential capabilities by disabling 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-000104-VMM-000500
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SRG-OS-000107-VMM-000530
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The ESXi host Secure Shell (SSH) daemon must ignore .rhosts files.
SSH trust relationships mean a compromise on one host can allow an attacker to move trivially to other hosts. SSH can emulate the behavior of the obsolete "rsh" command in allowing users to enable ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000163-VMM-000700
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