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The Photon operating system must use an OpenSSH server version that does not support protocol 1.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-256503 PHTN-30-000026 SV-256503r887183_rule Medium
Description
A replay attack may enable an unauthorized user to gain access to the operating system. Authentication sessions between the authenticator and the operating system validating the user credentials must not be vulnerable to a replay attack. An authentication process resists replay attacks if it is impractical to achieve a successful authentication by recording and replaying a previous authentication message. A privileged account is any information system account with authorizations of a privileged user. Techniques used to address this include protocols using nonces (e.g., numbers generated for a specific one-time use) or challenges (e.g., TLS, WS_Security). Additional techniques include time-synchronous or challenge-response one-time authenticators. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000074-GPOS-00042, SRG-OS-000112-GPOS-00057, SRG-OS-000113-GPOS-00058, SRG-OS-000120-GPOS-00061, SRG-OS-000125-GPOS-00065, SRG-OS-000395-GPOS-00175, SRG-OS-000425-GPOS-00189, SRG-OS-000426-GPOS-00190
STIG Date
VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS Security Technical Implementation Guide 2023-12-01

Details

Check Text ( C-60178r887181_chk )
At the command line, run the following command:

# rpm -qa|grep openssh

If there is no output or openssh is not >= version 7.4, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-60121r887182_fix)
Installing openssh manually is not supported by VMware for appliances. Revert to a previous backup or redeploy the appliance.