II - Mission Support Public
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-APP-000516
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The vCenter Server must limit membership to the "SystemConfiguration.BashShellAdministrators" Single Sign-On (SSO) group.
<VulnDiscussion>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.
<VulnDiscussion>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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The vCenter server configuration must be backed up on a regular basis.
<VulnDiscussion>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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The vCenter server must have task and event retention set to at least 30 days.
<VulnDiscussion>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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The vCenter server Native Key Provider must be backed up with a strong password.
<VulnDiscussion>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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The vCenter server must require authentication for published content libraries.
<VulnDiscussion>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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The vCenter server must enable the OVF security policy for content libraries.
<VulnDiscussion>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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The vCenter Server must separate authentication and authorization for administrators.
<VulnDiscussion>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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The vCenter Server must disable CDP/LLDP on distributed switches.
<VulnDiscussion>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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The vCenter Server must remove unauthorized port mirroring sessions on distributed switches.
<VulnDiscussion>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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