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VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The Photon operating system must configure sshd to disable X11 forwarding.

    <VulnDiscussion>X11 is an older, insecure graphics forwarding protocol. It is not used by Photon and should be disabled as a general best pra...
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  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • The Photon operating system must configure sshd to perform strict mode checking of home directory configuration files.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If other users have access to modify user-specific Secure Shell (SSH) configuration files, they may be able to log on to the ...
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  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • The Photon operating system must configure sshd to disallow Kerberos authentication.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If Kerberos is enabled through Secure Shell (SSH), sshd provides a means of access to the system's Kerberos implementation. V...
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  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • The Photon operating system must configure sshd to disallow authentication with an empty password.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Blank passwords are one of the first things an attacker checks for when probing a system. Even is the user somehow has a blan...
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  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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  • The Photon operating system must configure sshd to disallow compression of the encrypted session stream.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If compression is allowed in a Secure Shell (SSH) connection prior to authentication, vulnerabilities in the compression soft...
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  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

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