The operating system must enforce approved authorizations for logical access to the system in accordance with applicable policy.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-OS-000080-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000080-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000080-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
Strong access controls are critical to securing data. Access control policies (e.g., identity-based policies, role-based policies, attribute-based policies) and access enforcement mechanisms (e.g., access control lists, access control matrices, cryptography) must be employed by the operating system when applicable to control access between users (or processes acting on behalf of users) and objects (e.g., devices, files, records, processes, programs, domains) in the operating system. Permanent not a finding - Lockdown mode (required) limits access via the vpxuser proxy. The proxy's password is 32 (randomly selected) characters, SHA1 encrypted, not configurable, and changed every 30 days "or" sooner when/if a new host is configured/controlled by the vCenter Server. This password is obfuscated on vCenter.

Description

Strong access controls are critical to securing data. Access control policies (e.g., identity-based policies, role-based policies, attribute-based policies) and access enforcement mechanisms (e.g., access control lists, access control matrices, cryptography) must be employed by the operating system when applicable to control access between users (or processes acting on behalf of users) and objects (e.g., devices, files, records, processes, programs, domains) in the operating system. Permanent not a finding - Lockdown mode (required) limits access via the vpxuser proxy. The proxy's password is 32 (randomly selected) characters, SHA1 encrypted, not configurable, and changed every 30 days "or" sooner when/if a new host is configured/controlled by the vCenter Server. This password is obfuscated on vCenter.

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

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-OS-000080-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-000080-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.