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VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS 4.0 Security Technical Implementation Guide
SRG-OS-000021-GPOS-00005
The Photon operating system must prevent leaking information of the existence of a user account.
The Photon operating system must prevent leaking information of the existence of a user account.
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The Photon operating system must prevent leaking information of the existence of a user account.
Medium Severity
<VulnDiscussion>By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise known as brute-force attacks, is reduced. Limits are imposed by locking the account. If the pam_faillock.so module is not configured to use the silent flag it could leak information about the existence or nonexistence of a user account.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>