DISA VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS 4.0 STIG v2r1

Audit Details

Name: DISA VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS 4.0 STIG v2r1

Updated: 3/13/2026

Authority: DISA STIG

Plugin: Unix

Revision: 1.2

Estimated Item Count: 107

File Details

Filename: DISA_VMware_vSphere_8.0_vCenter_Appliance_Photon_OS_4.0_STIG_v2r1.audit

Size: 304 kB

MD5: 18f6af1e00b520172f8cb052018f7116
SHA256: 431cefbee6a11ea6c87e954ea599df26483f59a6bf6f2efebb6461deff0151c2

Audit Items

DescriptionCategories
DISA_STIG_VMware_vSphere_8.0_vCenter_Appliance_Photon_OS_4.0_v2r1.audit from DISA VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS 4.0 STIG v2r1
PHTN-40-000003 - The Photon operating system must audit all account creations.

ACCESS CONTROL, AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

PHTN-40-000004 - The Photon operating system must enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts by a user during a 15-minute time period.

ACCESS CONTROL

PHTN-40-000005 - The Photon operating system must display the Standard Mandatory DOD Notice and Consent Banner before granting local or remote access to the system.

ACCESS CONTROL

PHTN-40-000007 - The Photon operating system must limit the number of concurrent sessions to ten for all accounts and/or account types.

ACCESS CONTROL

PHTN-40-000012 - The Photon operating system must monitor remote access logins.

ACCESS CONTROL

PHTN-40-000013 - The Photon operating system must have the OpenSSL FIPS provider installed to protect the confidentiality of remote access sessions.

ACCESS CONTROL, MAINTENANCE, SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

PHTN-40-000014 - The Photon operating system must configure auditd to log to disk.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

PHTN-40-000016 - The Photon operating system must enable the auditd service.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY, CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT, SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY

PHTN-40-000019 - The Photon operating system must be configured to audit the execution of privileged functions.

ACCESS CONTROL, AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

PHTN-40-000021 - The Photon operating system must alert the ISSO and SA in the event of an audit processing failure.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

PHTN-40-000026 - The Photon operating system must protect audit logs from unauthorized access.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

PHTN-40-000030 - The Photon operating system must allow only authorized users to configure the auditd service.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

PHTN-40-000031 - The Photon operating system must generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access privileges occur.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

PHTN-40-000035 - The Photon operating system must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one uppercase character be used.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

PHTN-40-000036 - The Photon operating system must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one lowercase character be used.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

PHTN-40-000037 - The Photon operating system must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one numeric character be used.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

PHTN-40-000038 - The Photon operating system must require the change of at least eight characters when passwords are changed.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

PHTN-40-000039 - The operating system must store only encrypted representations of passwords.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

PHTN-40-000040 - The Photon operating system must not have the telnet package installed.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

PHTN-40-000041 - The Photon operating system must enforce one day as the minimum password lifetime.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

PHTN-40-000042 - The Photon operating systems must enforce a 90-day maximum password lifetime restriction.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

PHTN-40-000043 - The Photon operating system must prohibit password reuse for a minimum of five generations.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

PHTN-40-000044 - The Photon operating system must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

PHTN-40-000046 - The Photon operating system must require authentication upon booting into single-user and maintenance modes.

ACCESS CONTROL

PHTN-40-000047 - The Photon operating system must disable unnecessary kernel modules.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT, IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

PHTN-40-000049 - The Photon operating system must not have duplicate User IDs (UIDs).

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

PHTN-40-000059 - The Photon operating system must use mechanisms meeting the requirements of applicable federal laws, Executive orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance for authentication to a cryptographic module.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

PHTN-40-000067 - The Photon operating system must restrict access to the kernel message buffer.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

PHTN-40-000068 - The Photon operating system must be configured to use TCP syncookies.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

PHTN-40-000069 - The Photon operating system must terminate idle Secure Shell (SSH) sessions after 15 minutes.

MAINTENANCE, SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

PHTN-40-000073 - The Photon operating system /var/log directory must be restricted.

SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY

PHTN-40-000074 - The Photon operating system must reveal error messages only to authorized users.

SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY

PHTN-40-000076 - The Photon operating system must audit all account modifications.

ACCESS CONTROL

PHTN-40-000078 - The Photon operating system must audit all account removal actions.

ACCESS CONTROL

PHTN-40-000079 - The Photon operating system must implement only approved ciphers to protect the integrity of remote access sessions.

ACCESS CONTROL

PHTN-40-000080 - The Photon operating system must initiate session audits at system startup.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

PHTN-40-000082 - The Photon operating system must protect audit tools from unauthorized access.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

PHTN-40-000086 - The Photon operating system must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one special character be used.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

PHTN-40-000092 - The Photon operating system must use cryptographic mechanisms to protect the integrity of audit tools.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

PHTN-40-000093 - The operating system must automatically terminate a user session after inactivity time-outs have expired.

ACCESS CONTROL

PHTN-40-000105 - The Photon operating system must enable symlink access control protection in the kernel.

ACCESS CONTROL

PHTN-40-000107 - The Photon operating system must audit the execution of privileged functions.

ACCESS CONTROL, AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

PHTN-40-000108 - The Photon operating system must automatically lock an account until the locked account is released by an administrator when three unsuccessful logon attempts in 15 minutes occur.

ACCESS CONTROL

PHTN-40-000110 - The Photon operating system must allocate audit record storage capacity to store audit records when audit records are not immediately sent to a central audit record storage facility.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

PHTN-40-000112 - The Photon operating system must immediately notify the SA and ISSO when allocated audit record storage volume reaches 75 percent of the repository maximum audit record storage capacity.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

PHTN-40-000130 - The Photon operating system TDNF package management tool must cryptographically verify the authenticity of all software packages during installation.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

PHTN-40-000133 - The Photon operating system must require users to reauthenticate for privilege escalation.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

PHTN-40-000160 - The Photon operating system must implement address space layout randomization to protect its memory from unauthorized code execution.

SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY

PHTN-40-000161 - The Photon operating system must remove all software components after updated versions have been installed.

SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY