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V-259130

CAT II (Medium)

The vCenter UI service example applications must be removed.

Rule ID

SV-259130r960963_rule

STIG

VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance User Interface (UI) Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V2R2

CCIs

CCI-000381

Discussion

Tomcat provides example applications, documentation, and other directories in the default installation that do not serve a production use. These files must be deleted.

Check Content

At the command prompt, run the following command:

# ls -l /usr/lib/vmware-vsphere-ui/server/webapps/examples

If the examples folder exists or contains any content, this is a finding.

Fix Text

At the command prompt, run the following command:

# rm -rf /usr/lib/vmware-vsphere-ui/server/webapps/examples