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Assessment Title
Rule Text
All port groups on standard switches must be configured to reject guest Media Access Control (MAC) address changes.
Description
Discussion Text
If the virtual machine (VM) operating system changes the MAC address, it can send frames with an impersonated source MAC address at any time. This allows it to stage malicious attacks on the devices in a network by impersonating a network adaptor authorized by the receiving network.
This will prevent VMs from changing their effective MAC address, which will affect applications that require this functionality. This will also affect how a layer 2 bridge will operate and will affect applications that require a specific MAC address for licensing. "Reject MAC Changes" can be set at the vSwitch and/or the Portgroup level. Switch-level settings can be overridden at the Portgroup level.
This will prevent VMs from changing their effective MAC address, which will affect applications that require this functionality. This will also affect how a layer 2 bridge will operate and will affect applications that require a specific MAC address for licensing. "Reject MAC Changes" can be set at the vSwitch and/or the Portgroup level. Switch-level settings can be overridden at the Portgroup level.
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