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III - Administrative Classified

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

    Group
  • Virtual machines (VMs) must limit console sharing.

    By default, more than one user at a time can connect to remote console sessions. When multiple sessions are activated, each terminal window receives a notification about the new session. If an admi...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

    Group
  • Virtual machines (VMs) must limit informational messages from the virtual machine to the VMX file.

    The configuration file containing these name-value pairs is limited to a size of 1MB. If not limited, VMware tools in the guest operating system are capable of sending a large and continuous data s...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

    Group
  • Virtual machines (VMs) must prevent unauthorized removal, connection, and modification of devices.

    In a virtual machine, users and processes without root or administrator privileges can connect or disconnect devices, such as network adaptors and CD-ROM drives, and can modify device settings. Use...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000

    Group
  • Virtual machines (VMs) 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
  • Virtual machines (VMs) must have shared salt values disabled.

    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

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