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III - Administrative Classified

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-APP-000516

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  • The vCenter Server must use a limited privilege account when adding a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) identity source.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When adding an LDAP identity source to vSphere Single Sign-On (SSO), the account used to bind to Active Directory must be min...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • 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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  • 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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  • vCenter task and event retention must be 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

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