VMware vSphere 8.0 ESXi Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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The ESXi host Secure Shell (SSH) daemon must not allow host-based authentication.
<VulnDiscussion>SSH trust relationships mean a compromise on one host can allow an attacker to move trivially to other hosts. SSH's cryptogra...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000
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The ESXi host Secure Shell (SSH) daemon must not permit user environment settings.
<VulnDiscussion>SSH environment options potentially allow users to bypass access restriction in some configurations. Users must not be able t...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000
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The ESXi host Secure Shell (SSH) daemon must be configured to not allow gateway ports.
<VulnDiscussion>SSH Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection forwarding provides a mechanism to establish TCP connections proxied by th...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000
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The ESXi host Secure Shell (SSH) daemon must not permit tunnels.
<VulnDiscussion>OpenSSH has the ability to create network tunnels (layer 2 and layer 3) over an SSH connection. This function can provide sim...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000
<GroupDescription></GroupDescription>Group -
SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000
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The ESXi host must disable Inter-Virtual Machine (VM) Transparent Page Sharing.
<VulnDiscussion>Published academic papers have demonstrated that by forcing a flush and reload of cache memory, it is possible to measure mem...Rule Low Severity
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