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The operating system must audit any use of privileged accounts, or roles, with access to organization-defined security functions or security-relevant information, when accessing other system functions.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
SRG-OS-000020-ESXI5-PNF SRG-OS-000020-ESXI5-PNF SRG-OS-000020-ESXI5-PNF_rule Medium
Description
This requirement is intended to limit exposure due to operating from within a privileged account or role. The inclusion of role is intended to address those situations where an access control policy such as Role Based Access Control (RBAC) is being implemented and where a change of role provides the same degree of assurance in the change of access authorizations for both the user and all processes acting on behalf of the user as would be provided by a change between a privileged and non-privileged account. To limit exposure and provide forensic history of activity when operating from within a privileged account or role, the operating system must support organizational requirements that users of information system accounts, or roles, with access to organization-defined list of security functions or security-relevant information, use non-privileged accounts, or roles, when accessing other (non-security) system functions. Permanent not a finding - Auditing cannot be configured/implemented like a typical UNIX system. All accounts are privileged accounts. Auditing is turned on by default, as is logging. Syslog is the best way to ensure all access is logged. Access is limited to privileged roles only. In lockdown mode (required), only the vpxuser proxy has access.
STIG Date
VMware ESXi v5 Security Technical Implementation Guide 2013-01-15

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-OS-000020-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-SRG-OS-000020-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.