STIGQter: STIG Summary: VMware vSphere 6.7 UI Tomcat Security Technical Implementation Guide Version: 1 Release: 1 Benchmark Date: 09 Mar 2021:

vSphere UI must fail to a known safe state if system initialization fails, shutdown fails, or aborts fail.

DISA Rule

SV-239698r679200_rule

Vulnerability Number

V-239698

Group Title

SRG-APP-000225-WSR-000140

Rule Version

VCUI-67-000017

Severity

CAT II

CCI(s)

• CCI-001190 - The information system fails to an organization-defined known-state for organization-defined types of failures.

Weight

10

Fix Recommendation

Navigate to and open /etc/vmware-eam/catalina.properties.

Add or change the following line:

org.apache.catalina.startup.EXIT_ON_INIT_FAILURE=true

Check Contents

At the command line, execute the following command:

# grep EXIT_ON_INIT_FAILURE /usr/lib/vmware-vsphere-ui/server/conf/catalina.properties

Expected result:

org.apache.catalina.startup.EXIT_ON_INIT_FAILURE=true

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

Vulnerability Number

V-239698

Documentable

False

Rule Version

VCUI-67-000017

Severity Override Guidance

At the command line, execute the following command:

# grep EXIT_ON_INIT_FAILURE /usr/lib/vmware-vsphere-ui/server/conf/catalina.properties

Expected result:

org.apache.catalina.startup.EXIT_ON_INIT_FAILURE=true

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

Check Content Reference

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Target Key

5334

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