VMware vSphere ESXi 6.0 Security Technical Implementation Guide

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Severity

Version

V1 · R5

CurrentPublished Fri Jan 25 2019

The system must configure the firewall to block network traffic by default.

VMware vSphere ESXi 6.0 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Assessment Title

Rule Text

The system must configure the firewall to block network traffic by default.

Description

Discussion Text

In addition to service specific firewall rules ESXi has a default firewall rule policy to allow or deny incoming and outgoing traffic. Reduce the risk of attack by making sure this is set to deny incoming and outgoing traffic.

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Objective

V-63283

Rule

SV-77773r1_rule

Severity

medium

Rule Version

ESXI-06-000057

Documentable

false

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Rev 5

Assessment Procedure

Check Text

From a PowerCLI command prompt while connected to the ESXi host run the following command:

Get-VMHostFirewallDefaultPolicy

If the Incoming or Outgoing policies are True, this is a finding.

Implementation Procedure

Fix Text

From a PowerCLI command prompt while connected to the ESXi host run the following command:

Get-VMHostFirewallDefaultPolicy | Set-VMHostFirewallDefaultPolicy -AllowIncoming $false -AllowOutgoing $false

STIG check 57 of 108 in the VMware vSphere ESXi 6.0 STIG checklist

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