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VMware vSphere 8.0 Virtual Machine Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

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  • Virtual machines (VMs) must have drag and drop operations disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Copy and paste operations are disabled by default; however, explicitly disabling this feature will enable audit controls to v...
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  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

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  • Virtual machines (VMs) must have paste operations disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Copy and paste operations are disabled by default; however, explicitly disabling this feature will enable audit controls to v...
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  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

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  • Virtual machines (VMs) must have virtual disk shrinking disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Shrinking a virtual disk reclaims unused space in it. If there is empty space in the disk, this process reduces the amount of...
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  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

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  • Virtual machines (VMs) must have virtual disk wiping disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Shrinking and wiping (erasing) a virtual disk reclaims unused space in it. If there is empty space in the disk, this process ...
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  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

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  • Virtual machines (VMs) must limit console sharing.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;By default, more than one user at a time can connect to remote console sessions. When multiple sessions are activated, each t...
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  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

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  • Virtual machines (VMs) must limit informational messages from the virtual machine to the VMX file.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The configuration file containing these name-value pairs is limited to a size of 1MB. If not limited, VMware tools in the gue...
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  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

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  • Virtual machines (VMs) must prevent unauthorized removal, connection, and modification of devices.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In a virtual machine, users and processes without root or administrator privileges can connect or disconnect devices, such as...
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  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

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  • Virtual machines (VMs) must not be able to obtain host information from the hypervisor.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If enabled, a VM can obtain detailed information about the physical host. The default value for the parameter is FALSE. This ...
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  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

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  • Virtual machines (VMs) must have shared salt values disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When salting is enabled (Mem.ShareForceSalting=1 or 2) to share a page between two virtual machines, both salt and the conten...
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  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

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  • Virtual machines (VMs) must disable access through the "dvfilter" network Application Programming Interface (API).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;An attacker might compromise a VM by using the "dvFilter" API. Configure only VMs that need this access to use the API.&lt;/V...
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