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1.28 VCLU-80-000142

Information

The vCenter Lookup service default ROOT web application must be removed.

GROUP ID: V-259064RULE ID: SV-259064r960963

The default ROOT web application includes the version of Tomcat being used, links to Tomcat documentation, examples, FAQs, and mailing lists. The default ROOT web application must be removed from a publicly accessible instance and a more appropriate default page shown to users.

Solution

At the command prompt, run the following command:

rm -rf /var/opt/apache-tomcat/webapps/ROOT/*

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/23617

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-7, 800-53|CM-7a., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000381, Rule-ID|SV-259064r960963_rule, STIG-ID|VCLU-80-000142, Vuln-ID|V-259064

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 88aa76ab72f875dbe4097011da0740103dd4fc1a0d194f98f97c9c9292d8d117