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V-256723

CAT II (Medium)

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

Rule ID

SV-256723r888760_rule

STIG

VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance Lookup Service Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R2

CCIs

CCI-001190

Discussion

Determining a safe state for failure and weighing that against a potential denial of service for users depends on what type of application the web server is hosting. For the Lookup Service, it is preferable that the service abort startup on any initialization failure rather than continuing in a degraded, and potentially insecure, state.

Check Content

At the command line, run the following command:

# grep EXIT_ON_INIT_FAILURE /usr/lib/vmware-lookupsvc/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.

Fix Text

Navigate to and open:

/usr/lib/vmware-lookupsvc/conf/catalina.properties

Add or change the following line:

org.apache.catalina.startup.EXIT_ON_INIT_FAILURE=true

Restart the service with the following command:

# vmon-cli --restart lookupsvc