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V-259046

CAT II (Medium)

The vCenter Lookup service must be configured to fail to a known safe state if system initialization fails.

Rule ID

SV-259046r934796_rule

STIG

VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Lookup Service Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R1

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. 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

Example result:

org.apache.catalina.startup.EXIT_ON_INIT_FAILURE=true

If there are no results, or if the "org.apache.catalina.startup.EXIT_ON_INIT_FAILURE" is not set to "true", 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