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VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS 4.0 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The Photon operating system must not forward IPv4 or IPv6 source-routed packets.

    <VulnDiscussion>Source routing is an Internet Protocol mechanism that allows an IP packet to carry information, a list of addresses, that tel...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The Photon operating system must log IPv4 packets with impossible addresses.

    <VulnDiscussion>The presence of "martian" packets (which have impossible addresses) as well as spoofed packets, source-routed packets, and re...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Photon operating system must use a reverse-path filter for IPv4 network traffic.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Enabling reverse path filtering drops packets with source addresses that should not have been able to be received on the inte...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Photon operating system must not perform IPv4 packet forwarding.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Routing protocol daemons are typically used on routers to exchange network topology information with other routers. If this s...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Photon operating system must send TCP timestamps.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;TCP timestamps are used to provide protection against wrapped sequence numbers. It is possible to calculate system uptime (an...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Photon operating system must be configured to protect the Secure Shell (SSH) public host key from unauthorized modification.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If a public host key file is modified by an unauthorized user, the SSH service may be compromised.&lt;/VulnDiscussion&gt;&lt;...
    Rule Medium Severity

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