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VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Security Technical Implementation Guide
SRG-APP-000345
The vCenter Server must require an administrator to unlock an account locked due to excessive login failures.
The vCenter Server must require an administrator to unlock an account locked due to excessive login failures.
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The vCenter Server must require an administrator to unlock an account locked due to excessive login failures.
Medium Severity
<VulnDiscussion>By requiring that Single Sign-On (SSO) accounts be unlocked manually, the risk of unauthorized access via user password guessing, otherwise known as brute forcing, is reduced. When the account unlock time is set to zero, once an account is locked it can only be unlocked manually by an administrator.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>