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The Photon operating system must configure the Secure Shell (SSH) SyslogFacility.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-258865PHTN-40-000200SV-258865r1003652_ruleCCI-000067medium
Description
Automated monitoring of remote access sessions allows organizations to detect cyber attacks and ensure ongoing compliance with remote access policies by auditing connection activities. Shipping SSH authentication events to syslog allows organizations to use their log aggregators to correlate forensic activities among multiple systems.
STIGDate
VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS 4.0 Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-06-02

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 4 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.

NET-14.1Automated Monitoring & Control
1.00
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (22) 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.

AC-16Security and Privacy Attributes
1.00
AC-17(1)Monitoring and Control
1.00
AC-2(4)Automated Audit Actions
1.00
AC-3(3)Mandatory Access Control
1.00
AC-6(9)Log Use of Privileged Functions
1.00
AU-10Non-repudiation
1.00
AU-12Audit Record Generation
1.00
AU-14(1)System Start-up
1.00
AU-14(2)Capture and Record Content
1.00
AU-3Content of Audit Records
1.00

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NIST 800-1710 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.

3.1.12
1.00
CCI1 mapping
CCI-000067
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-258865r1003652_chk)

At the command line, run the following command to verify the running configuration of sshd: # sshd -T|&grep -i SyslogFacility Example result: syslogfacility AUTHPRIV If "syslogfacility" is not set to "AUTH" or "AUTHPRIV", this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-62514r933655_fix)

Navigate to and open: /etc/ssh/sshd_config Ensure the "SyslogFacility" line is uncommented and set to the following: SyslogFacility AUTHPRIV At the command line, run the following command: # systemctl restart sshd.service