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Assessment Title
Rule Text
The ESXi Common Information Model (CIM) service must be disabled.
Description
Discussion Text
The CIM system provides an interface that enables hardware-level management from remote applications via a set of standard application programming interfaces (APIs). These APIs are consumed by external applications such as HP SIM or Dell OpenManage for agentless, remote hardware monitoring of the ESXi host.
To reduce attack surface area and following the minimum functionality principal, the CIM service must be disabled unless explicitly needed and approved.
To reduce attack surface area and following the minimum functionality principal, the CIM service must be disabled unless explicitly needed and approved.
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