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CIS VMware ESXi 7.0 v1.4.0 L2

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Audit Details

Name: CIS VMware ESXi 7.0 v1.4.0 L2

Updated: 7/16/2025

Authority: CIS

Plugin: VMware

Revision: 1.2

Estimated Item Count: 30

File Details

Filename: CIS_VMware_ESXi_7.0_v1.4.0_L2.audit

Size: 99 kB

MD5: 4ba33c64756b473960b9c2eb38bcb804
SHA256: c6dbe74bf8172adba63763a6e96f95ff3ff1d5e08af319824ea9bb56061cdd7d

Audit Items

DescriptionCategories
1.4 (L2) Ensure the default value of individual salt per vm is configured
2.9 (L2) Ensure VDS health check is disabled
5.6 (L2) Ensure Strict Lockdown mode is enabled
5.11 (L2) Ensure contents of exposed configuration files have not been modified
6.2 (L2) Ensure the uniqueness of CHAP authentication secrets for iSCSI traffic
8.1.1 (L2) Ensure only one remote console connection is permitted to a VM at any time
8.2.2 (L2) Ensure unnecessary CD/DVD devices are disconnected
8.4.2 (L2) Ensure Autologon is disabled
8.4.3 (L2) Ensure BIOS BBS is disabled
8.4.4 (L2) Ensure Guest Host Interaction Protocol Handler is set to disabled
8.4.5 (L2) Ensure Unity Taskbar is disabled
8.4.6 (L2) Ensure Unity Active is disabled
8.4.7 (L2) Ensure Unity Window Contents is disabled
8.4.8 (L2) Ensure Unity Push Update is disabled
8.4.9 (L2) Ensure Drag and Drop Version Get is disabled
8.4.10 (L2) Ensure Drag and Drop Version Set is disabled
8.4.11 (L2) Ensure Shell Action is disabled
8.4.12 (L2) Ensure Request Disk Topology is disabled
8.4.13 (L2) Ensure Trash Folder State is disabled
8.4.14 (L2) Ensure Guest Host Interaction Tray Icon is disabled
8.4.15 (L2) Ensure Unity is disabled
8.4.16 (L2) Ensure Unity Interlock is disabled
8.4.17 (L2) Ensure GetCreds is disabled
8.4.18 (L2) Ensure Host Guest File System Server is disabled
8.4.19 (L2) Ensure Guest Host Interaction Launch Menu is disabled
8.4.20 (L2) Ensure memSchedFakeSampleStats is disabled
8.5.1 (L2) Ensure VM limits are configured correctly
8.5.2 (L2) Ensure hardware-based 3D acceleration is disabled
8.6.1 (L2) Ensure nonpersistent disks are limited
8.7.2 (L2) Ensure host information is not sent to guests