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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 disable the debug-shell service.

    <VulnDiscussion>The debug-shell service is intended to diagnose systemd related boot issues with various systemctl commands. Once enabled and...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The Photon operating system must include root when automatically locking an account until the locked account is released by an administrator when three unsuccessful logon attempts occur during a 15-minute time period.

    <VulnDiscussion>By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000021-GPOS-00005

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Photon operating system must persist lockouts between system reboots.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000069-GPOS-00037

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group

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