The system must enable all tasks to be shown to Administrators in the Web Client.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-63995	VCWN-06-000029	SV-78485r1_rule		Medium

Description
By default not all tasks are shown in the web client to administrators and only that user's tasks will be shown. Enabling all tasks to be shown will allow the administrator to potentially see any malicious activity they may miss with the view disabled.

STIG	Date
VMware vSphere vCenter Server Version 6 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2017-07-11

Details

Check Text ( C-64747r1_chk )
Verify the webclient.properties file contains the line "show.allusers.tasks = true". The default locations for the webclient.properties file are: Windows - C:\ProgramData\VMware\vCenterServer\cfg\vsphere-client\ Appliance - /etc/vmware/vsphere-client/ If show.allusers.tasks is not set to true, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-69927r1_fix)
Edit the webclient.properties file to set the show.allusers.tasks setting to true. The default locations for the webclient.properties file are: Windows - C:\ProgramData\VMware\vCenterServer\cfg\vsphere-client\ Appliance - /etc/vmware/vsphere-client/ After editing the file the vSphere Web Client service will need to be restarted.