The Photon operating system must configure sshd to disallow HostbasedAuthentication.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
Secure Shell (SSH) trust relationships enable trivial lateral spread after a host compromise and therefore must be explicitly disabled.
- ID
- SV-256584r991591_rule
- Version
- PHTN-30-000115
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Navigate to and open:
/etc/ssh/sshd_config
Ensure the "HostbasedAuthentication" line is uncommented and set to the following: