The operating system must use cryptography to protect the confidentiality of remote access sessions.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-39411	SRG-OS-000033-ESXI5	SV-51269r1_rule		High

Description
Remote network access is accomplished by leveraging common communication protocols and establishing a remote connection. These connections will occur over the public Internet. Remote access is any access to an organizational information system by a user (or an information system) communicating through an external, non-organization-controlled network (e.g., the Internet). Examples of remote access methods include dial-up, broadband, and wireless. Using cryptography ensures confidentiality of the remote access connections.

Description

Remote network access is accomplished by leveraging common communication protocols and establishing a remote connection. These connections will occur over the public Internet. Remote access is any access to an organizational information system by a user (or an information system) communicating through an external, non-organization-controlled network (e.g., the Internet). Examples of remote access methods include dial-up, broadband, and wireless. Using cryptography ensures confidentiality of the remote access connections.

STIG	Date
VMware ESXi Server 5.0 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2017-01-06

Details

Check Text ( C-46685r1_chk )
Disable lock down mode. Enable the ESXi Shell. Check the SSH daemon configuration for required protocol. # grep -i "Protocol 2" /etc/ssh/sshd_config \| grep -v '^#' Re-enable lock down mode. If no lines are returned, or the returned protocol list contains anything except 2, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-44424r1_fix)
Disable lock down mode. Enable the ESXi Shell. Edit the SSH daemon configuration and add/modify the "Protocol" configuration for Protocol 2 only. # vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config Re-enable lock down mode.