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VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS 4.0 Security Technical Implementation Guide
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
The Photon operating system must configure Secure Shell (SSH) to ignore user-specific known_host files.
The Photon operating system must configure Secure Shell (SSH) to ignore user-specific known_host files.
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The Photon operating system must configure Secure Shell (SSH) to ignore user-specific known_host files.
Medium Severity
<VulnDiscussion>SSH trust relationships enable trivial lateral spread after a host compromise and therefore must be explicitly disabled. Individual users can have a local list of trusted remote machines, which must also be ignored while disabling host-based authentication generally.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>