The ESXi host Secure Shell (SSH) daemon must disable port forwarding.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
While enabling Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) tunnels is a valuable function of sshd, this feature is not appropriate for use on the ESXi hypervisor.
- ID
- SV-256434r959010_rule
- Version
- ESXI-70-000082
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
From an ESXi shell, add or correct the following line in "/etc/ssh/sshd_config":
AllowTcpForwarding no