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V-256434

CAT II (Medium)

The ESXi host Secure Shell (SSH) daemon must disable port forwarding.

Rule ID

SV-256434r959010_rule

STIG

VMware vSphere 7.0 ESXi Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R4

CCIs

CCI-000366

Discussion

While enabling Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) tunnels is a valuable function of sshd, this feature is not appropriate for use on the ESXi hypervisor.

Check Content

From an ESXi shell, run the following command:

# /usr/lib/vmware/openssh/bin/sshd -T|grep allowtcpforwarding

Expected result:

allowtcpforwarding no

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

Fix Text

From an ESXi shell, add or correct the following line in "/etc/ssh/sshd_config": 

AllowTcpForwarding no