Cron and crontab directories must not have extended ACLs.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
GEN003110-ESXI5-PNF	GEN003110-ESXI5-PNF	GEN003110-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
To protect the integrity of scheduled system jobs and to prevent malicious modification to these jobs, crontab files must be secured. ACLs on cron and crontab directories may provide unauthorized access to these directories. Unauthorized modifications to these directories or their contents may result in the addition of unauthorized cron jobs or deny service to authorized cron jobs. Applicable, but permanent not-a-finding - The hypervisor does not support this function.

Description

To protect the integrity of scheduled system jobs and to prevent malicious modification to these jobs, crontab files must be secured. ACLs on cron and crontab directories may provide unauthorized access to these directories. Unauthorized modifications to these directories or their contents may result in the addition of unauthorized cron jobs or deny service to authorized cron jobs. Applicable, but permanent not-a-finding - The hypervisor does not support this function.

STIG	Date
VMware ESXi v5 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2013-01-15

Details

Check Text ( C-GEN003110-ESXI5-PNF_chk )
ESXi supports this requirement and cannot be configured to be out of compliance. This is a permanent not a finding.

Fix Text (F-GEN003110-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.