VCLD-67-000025 - VAMI must protect the keystore from unauthorized access.

Information

The web server's private key is used to prove the identity of the server to clients and securely exchange the shared secret key used to encrypt communications between the web server and clients. By gaining access to the private key, an attacker can pretend to be an authorized server and decrypt the SSL traffic between a client and the web server.

Solution

At the command prompt, execute the following commands:

# chown root:root /etc/applmgmt/appliance/server.pem
# chmod 600 /etc/applmgmt/appliance/server.pem

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_VMW_vSphere_6-7_STIG.zip

Item Details

References: CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000186, Rule-ID|SV-239732r679306_rule, STIG-ID|VCLD-67-000025, Vuln-ID|V-239732

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 662605c8de03eb26c95227ff82b01fda04981b419a918ec094a7cc9c3124489b