The operating system must use organization-defined replay-resistant authentication mechanisms for network access to non-privileged accounts.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-OS-000113-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000113-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000113-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
An authentication process resists replay attacks if it is impractical to achieve a successful authentication by recording and replaying a previous authentication message. Techniques used to address this include protocols using challenges (e.g., TLS, WS_Security), time synchronous, or challenge-response one-time authenticators. Permanent not a finding - SSH (disabled by default and unused due to Lockdown Mode requirement) is configured for "Protocol 2". All versions of VMware products, including all releases of vCenter Server use X.509 certificates to encrypt session information sent over SSL (secure sockets layer protocol) connections between server and client components such as ESXi-v5. No non-privileged accounts.

Description

An authentication process resists replay attacks if it is impractical to achieve a successful authentication by recording and replaying a previous authentication message. Techniques used to address this include protocols using challenges (e.g., TLS, WS_Security), time synchronous, or challenge-response one-time authenticators. Permanent not a finding - SSH (disabled by default and unused due to Lockdown Mode requirement) is configured for "Protocol 2". All versions of VMware products, including all releases of vCenter Server use X.509 certificates to encrypt session information sent over SSL (secure sockets layer protocol) connections between server and client components such as ESXi-v5. No non-privileged accounts.

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

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-OS-000113-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-000113-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.