The system must prevent unintended use of dvfilter network APIs.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
SRG-OS-99999-ESXI5-000151	SRG-OS-99999-ESXI5-000151	SRG-OS-99999-ESXI5-000151_rule		Low

Description
If products that use the dvfilter network API are not used, the host should not be configured to send network information to a VM. If the API is enabled, an attacker might attempt to connect a VM to it, thereby potentially providing access to the network of other VMs on the host. If a product uses this API, the host must be verified as being correctly configured.

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

Details

Check Text ( C-SRG-OS-99999-ESXI5-000151_chk )
From the vSphere client select the host and click "Configuration >> Advanced Settings >> Net" and verify the value of Net.DVFilterBindIpAddress. For a host without a dvfilter-based network security appliance, the following kernel parameter value must be blank/empty: /Net/DVFilterBindIpAddress. For a host with a dvfilter-based network security appliance is being used, the value of this parameter must be set to match the appliance. If a dvfilter-based network security appliance is not used and the kernel parameter /Net/DVFilterBindIpAddress is populated, this is a finding. If a dvfilter-based network security appliance is used and the kernel parameter /Net/DVFilterBindIpAddress does not match the appliance, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-SRG-OS-99999-ESXI5-000151_chk )

From the vSphere client select the host and click "Configuration >> Advanced Settings >> Net" and verify the value of Net.DVFilterBindIpAddress.

For a host without a dvfilter-based network security appliance, the following kernel parameter value must be blank/empty: /Net/DVFilterBindIpAddress.

For a host with a dvfilter-based network security appliance is being used, the value of this parameter must be set to match the appliance.

If a dvfilter-based network security appliance is not used and the kernel parameter /Net/DVFilterBindIpAddress is populated, this is a finding.

If a dvfilter-based network security appliance is used and the kernel parameter /Net/DVFilterBindIpAddress does not match the appliance, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-SRG-OS-99999-ESXI5-000151_fix)
From the vSphere client select the host and click "Configuration >> Advanced Settings >> Net" Set the value of Net.DVFilterBindIpAddress to blank if a dvfilter-based network security appliance is not used or (where used) set the value of Net.DVFilterBindIpAddress to match the dvfilter-based network security appliance.