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V-256619

CAT II (Medium)

Performance Charts must only run one webapp.

Rule ID

SV-256619r888348_rule

STIG

VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance Perfcharts Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R1

CCIs

CCI-001749

Discussion

VMware ships Performance Charts on the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA)with one webapp. Any other path is potentially malicious and must be removed.

Check Content

At the command prompt, run the following command:

# ls -A /usr/lib/vmware-perfcharts/tc-instance/webapps

Expected result:

statsreport

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

Fix Text

For each unexpected directory returned in the check, run the following command:

# rm /usr/lib/vmware-perfcharts/tc-instance/webapps/<NAME>

Restart the service with the following command:

# vmon-cli --restart perfcharts