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The vCenter STS service files must have permissions in an out-of-the-box state.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-258998VCST-80-000144SV-258998r934652_ruleCCI-001813medium
Description
As a rule, accounts on a web server are to be kept to a minimum. Only administrators, web managers, developers, auditors, and web authors require accounts on the machine hosting the web server. The resources to which these accounts have access must also be closely monitored and controlled.
STIGDate
VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Secure Token Service (STS) Security Technical Implementation Guide2023-10-29

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.

CHG-04.1Automated Access Enforcement / Auditing
1.00
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (50) 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-17(1)Monitoring and Control
1.00
AC-2(1)Automated System Account Management
1.00
AC-2(10)Shared and Group Account Credential Change
1.00
AC-2(2)Automated Temporary and Emergency Account Management
1.00
AC-2(3)Disable Accounts
1.00
AC-2(4)Automated Audit Actions
1.00
AC-3Access Enforcement
1.00
AC-3(7)Role-based Access Control
1.00
AC-4Information Flow Enforcement
1.00
AC-6(10)Prohibit Non-privileged Users from Executing Privileged Functions
1.00

+40 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

CCI1 mapping
CCI-001813
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-258998r934652_chk)

At the command prompt, run the following command: # find /usr/lib/vmware-sso/ -xdev -type f -a '(' -perm -o+w -o -not -user root -o -not -group root ')' -exec ls -ld {} \; If any files are returned, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-62647r934651_fix)

At the command prompt, run the following commands: # chmod o-w <file> # chown root:root <file> Note: Substitute <file> with the listed file.