The Photon operating system must remove all software components after updated versions have been installed.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-256536	PHTN-30-000066	SV-256536r958936_rule	CCI-002617	medium
Description
Previous versions of software components that are not removed from the information system after updates have been installed may be exploited by adversaries. Some information technology products may remove older versions of software automatically from the information system.
STIG			Date
VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS Security Technical Implementation Guide			2024-12-16

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 3 frameworks

SCF0 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (1) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

VPM-05.5Removal of Previous Versions

1.00

DISA STIG Benchmark (XCCDF)V1R4intersects(normalised)
DISA CCI List2025-01-23equal to(normalised)
SCF Secure Traceability Relationship Mapping (STRM)2026.2equal to

NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (1) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

SI-2(6)Removal of Previous Versions of Software and Firmware

1.00

DISA STIG Benchmark (XCCDF)V1R4intersects(normalised)
DISA CCI List2025-01-23equal to(normalised)

CCI1 mapping

CCI-002617

1.00

DISA STIG Benchmark (XCCDF)V1R4intersects(normalised)

Details

Check Text (C-256536r958936_chk)

At the command line, run the following command: # grep -i "^clean_requirements_on_remove" /etc/tdnf/tdnf.conf Expected result: clean_requirements_on_remove=true If the output does not match the expected result, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-60154r887281_fix)

Navigate to and open: /etc/tdnf/tdnf.conf Remove any existing "clean_requirements_on_remove" line and ensure the following line is present: clean_requirements_on_remove=true