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I - Mission Critical Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-APP-000516

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  • The vCenter Server must limit membership to the "SystemConfiguration.BashShellAdministrators" Single Sign-On (SSO) group.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;vCenter SSO integrates with PAM in the underlying Photon operating system so members of the "SystemConfiguration.BashShellAdm...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516

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    Group
  • The vCenter Server must limit membership to the "TrustedAdmins" Single Sign-On (SSO) group.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The vSphere "TrustedAdmins" group grants additional rights to administer the vSphere Trust Authority feature. To force accou...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516

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    Group
  • The vCenter server configuration must be backed up on a regular basis.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;vCenter server is the control plane for the vSphere infrastructure and all the workloads it hosts. As such, vCenter is usuall...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516

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    Group
  • The vCenter server must have task and event retention set to at least 30 days.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;vCenter tasks and events contain valuable historical actions, useful in troubleshooting availability issues and for incident ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516

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    Group
  • The vCenter server Native Key Provider must be backed up with a strong password.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The vCenter Native Key Provider feature was introduced in 7.0 U2 and acts as a key provider for encryption-based capabilities...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516

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    Group
  • The vCenter server must require authentication for published content libraries.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In the vSphere Client, you can create a local or a subscribed content library. By using content libraries, you can store and ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516

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    Group
  • The vCenter server must enable the OVF security policy for content libraries.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;In the vSphere Client, you can create a local or a subscribed content library. By using content libraries, you can store and ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516

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    Group
  • The vCenter Server must separate authentication and authorization for administrators.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Many organizations do both authentication and authorization using a centralized directory service such as Active Directory. A...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516

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    Group
  • The vCenter Server must disable CDP/LLDP on distributed switches.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The vSphere Distributed Virtual Switch can participate in Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) or Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LL...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516

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    Group
  • The vCenter Server must remove unauthorized port mirroring sessions on distributed switches.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The vSphere Distributed Virtual Switch can enable port mirroring sessions allowing traffic to be mirrored from one source to ...
    Rule Medium Severity

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