The vCenter VAMI service must restrict access to the web server's private key.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-259147	VCLD-80-000040	SV-259147r935345_rule		Medium

Description
The web server's private key is used to prove the identity of the server to clients and securely exchange the shared secret key used to encrypt communications between the web server and clients. By gaining access to the private key, an attacker can pretend to be an authorized server and decrypt the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) traffic between a client and the web server.

STIG	Date
VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Management Interface (VAMI) Security Technical Implementation Guide	2023-10-29

Details

Check Text ( C-62887r935343_chk )
At the command prompt, run the following command: # stat -c "%n has %a permissions and is owned by %U:%G" /etc/applmgmt/appliance/server.pem Expected result: /etc/applmgmt/appliance/server.pem has 600 permissions and is owned by root:root If the output does not match the expected result, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-62796r935344_fix)
At the command prompt, run the following commands: # chown root:root /etc/applmgmt/appliance/server.pem # chmod 600 /etc/applmgmt/appliance/server.pem