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V-256442

CAT II (Medium)

The ESXi host rhttpproxy daemon must use FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic modules to protect the confidentiality of remote access sessions.

Rule ID

SV-256442r958408_rule

STIG

VMware vSphere 7.0 ESXi Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R4

CCIs

CCI-000068

Discussion

ESXi runs a reverse proxy service called rhttpproxy that front ends internal services and application programming interfaces (APIs) over one HTTPS port by redirecting virtual paths to localhost ports. This proxy implements a FIPS 140-2 validated OpenSSL cryptographic module that is in FIPS mode by default. This configuration must be validated and maintained to protect the traffic that rhttpproxy manages.

Check Content

From an ESXi shell, run the following command:

# esxcli system security fips140 rhttpproxy get

or

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

$esxcli = Get-EsxCli -v2
$esxcli.system.security.fips140.rhttpproxy.get.invoke()

Expected result:

Enabled: true

If the output does not match the expected result, this is a finding.

Fix Text

From an ESXi shell, run the following command:

# esxcli system security fips140 rhttpproxy set -e true

or

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

$esxcli = Get-EsxCli -v2
$arguments = $esxcli.system.security.fips140.rhttpproxy.set.CreateArgs()
$arguments.enable = $true
$esxcli.system.security.fips140.rhttpproxy.set.Invoke($arguments)