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1.1 ESXI-80-000005

Information

The ESXi host must enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts by a user.

GROUP ID: V-258728
RULE ID: SV-258728r958388

By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized access via user password guessing, otherwise known as brute forcing, is reduced. Once the configured number of attempts is reached, the account is locked by the ESXi host.

Solution

From the vSphere Client, go to Hosts and Clusters.

Select the ESXi Host >> Configure >> System >> Advanced System Settings.

Click "Edit". Select the "Security.AccountLockFailures" value and configure it to "3".

or

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

Get-VMHost | Get-AdvancedSetting -Name Security.AccountLockFailures | Set-AdvancedSetting -Value 3

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/23619

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL

References: 800-53|AC-7a., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000044, Rule-ID|SV-258728r958388_rule, STIG-ID|ESXI-80-000005, Vuln-ID|V-258728

Plugin: VMware

Control ID: c08adcf94eb427d46f73dedfedd4173693aa75d748ed417644577baa07f016fd