The operating system must generate error messages providing information necessary for corrective actions without revealing organization-defined sensitive or potentially harmful information in error logs and administrative messages that could be exploited.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-OS-000205-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000205-ESXI5-PNF	SRG-OS-000205-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
Any operating system providing too much information in error logs and in administrative messages to the screen, risks compromising the data and security of the structure and content of error messages needs to be carefully considered by the organization. Permanent not a finding - Auditing cannot be configured/implemented like a typical UNIX system. 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.

Description

Any operating system providing too much information in error logs and in administrative messages to the screen, risks compromising the data and security of the structure and content of error messages needs to be carefully considered by the organization. Permanent not a finding - Auditing cannot be configured/implemented like a typical UNIX system. 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-000205-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-000205-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.