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I - Mission Critical Classified

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000037-VMM-000150

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    Group
  • The ESXi host must produce audit records containing information to establish what type of events occurred.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Without establishing what types of events occurred, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000069-VMM-000360

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    Group
  • The ESXi host must be configured with a sufficiently complex password policy.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To enforce the use of complex passwords, minimum numbers of characters of different classes are mandated. The use of comple...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000077-VMM-000440

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    Group
  • The ESXi host must prohibit the reuse of passwords within five iterations.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If a user or root used the same password continuously or was allowed to change it back shortly after being forced to change i...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000095-VMM-000480

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    Group
  • The ESXi host must disable the Managed Object Browser (MOB).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The MOB provides a way to explore the object model used by the VMkernel to manage the host and enables configurations to be c...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000095-VMM-000480

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    Group
  • The ESXi host must be configured to disable nonessential capabilities by disabling Secure Shell (SSH).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The ESXi Shell is an interactive command line interface (CLI) available at the ESXi server console. The ESXi shell provides t...
    Rule Medium Severity

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