The operating system must enforce information flow control on metadata.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-OS-000014-ESXI5-PF	SRG-OS-000014-ESXI5-PF	SRG-OS-000014-ESXI5-PF_rule		Medium

Description
Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an information system and between information systems (as opposed to who is allowed to access the information) and without explicit regard to subsequent accesses to the information. Metadata is defined as data providing information about one or more other pieces of data, such as, purpose of the data, author/creator of the data, network location of where data was created, and application specific data information. Applicable, but permanent finding - The hypervisor does not support this functionality.

Description

Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within an information system and between information systems (as opposed to who is allowed to access the information) and without explicit regard to subsequent accesses to the information. Metadata is defined as data providing information about one or more other pieces of data, such as, purpose of the data, author/creator of the data, network location of where data was created, and application specific data information. Applicable, but permanent finding - The hypervisor does not support this functionality.

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

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-OS-000014-ESXI5-PF_chk )
ESXi does not support this requirement. This is a permanent finding.

Fix Text (F-SRG-OS-000014-ESXI5-PF_fix)
This requirement is a permanent finding and cannot be fixed. An appropriate mitigation for the system must be implemented but this finding cannot be considered fixed.