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III - Administrative Classified

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

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  • The virtual machine (VM) must not be able to obtain host information from the hypervisor.

    If enabled, a VM can obtain detailed information about the physical host. The default value for the parameter is FALSE. This setting should not be TRUE unless a particular VM requires this informat...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

    Group
  • Shared salt values must be disabled on the virtual machine (VM).

    When salting is enabled (Mem.ShareForceSalting=1 or 2) to share a page between two virtual machines, both salt and the content of the page must be same. A salt value is a configurable advanced opti...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

    Group
  • Access to virtual machines (VMs) through the "dvfilter" network Application Programming Interface (API) must be controlled.

    An attacker might compromise a VM by using the "dvFilter" API. Configure only VMs that need this access to use the API.
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

    Group
  • System administrators must use templates to deploy virtual machines (VMs) whenever possible.

    Capture a hardened base operating system image (with no applications installed) in a template to ensure all VMs are created with a known baseline level of security. Use this template to create othe...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

    Group
  • Use of the virtual machine (VM) console must be minimized.

    The VM console enables a connection to the console of a virtual machine, in effect seeing what a monitor on a physical server would show. The VM console also provides power management and removable...
    Rule Medium Severity

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