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Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

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  • The ESXi host must configure a session timeout for the vSphere API.

    The vSphere API (VIM) allows for remote, programmatic administration of the ESXi host. Authenticated API sessions are no different from a risk perspective than authenticated UI sessions and they ne...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

    Group
  • The ESXi Host Client must be configured with a session timeout.

    The ESXi Host Client is the UI served up by the host itself, outside of vCenter. It is accessed by browsing to "https://<ESX FQDN>/ui". ESXi is not usually administered via this interface for long ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000033-VMM-000140

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  • The ESXi host rhttpproxy daemon must use FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic modules to protect the confidentiality of remote access sessions.

    ESXi runs a reverse proxy service called rhttpproxy that front ends internal services and application programming interfaces (APIs) over one HTTPS port by redirecting virtual paths to localhost por...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

    Group
  • The ESXi host must be configured with an appropriate maximum password age.

    The older an ESXi local account password is, the larger the opportunity window is for attackers to guess, crack or reuse a previously cracked password. Rotating passwords on a regular basis is a fu...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

    Group
  • The ESXi host must not be configured to override virtual machine (VM) configurations.

    Each VM on an ESXi host runs in its own "vmx" process. Upon creation, a vmx process will look in two locations for configuration items, the ESXi host itself and the per-vm *.vmx file in the VM stor...
    Rule Medium Severity

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