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Management Information Base (MIB) files must not have extended ACLs.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
GEN005350-ESXI5-PNF GEN005350-ESXI5-PNF GEN005350-ESXI5-PNF_rule Medium
Description
The ability to read the MIB file could impart special knowledge to an intruder or malicious user about the ability to extract compromising information about the system or network. 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-GEN005350-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-GEN005350-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.