Oracle JRE 8 must have a deployment.properties file present.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-66943	JRE8-WN-000030	SV-81433r1_rule		Medium

Description
By default no deployment.properties file exists; thus, no system-wide deployment exists. The file must be created. The deployment.properties file is used for specifying keys for the Java Runtime Environment. Each option in the Java control panel is represented by property keys. These keys adjust the options in the Java control panel based on the value assigned to that key. Without the deployment.properties file, setting particular options for the Java control panel is impossible.

Description

By default no deployment.properties file exists; thus, no system-wide deployment exists. The file must be created. The deployment.properties file is used for specifying keys for the Java Runtime Environment. Each option in the Java control panel is represented by property keys. These keys adjust the options in the Java control panel based on the value assigned to that key. Without the deployment.properties file, setting particular options for the Java control panel is impossible.

STIG	Date
Java Runtime Environment (JRE) Version 8 STIG for Windows	2016-09-27

Details

Check Text ( C-67579r1_chk )
Navigate to the system-level “deployment.properties” file for JRE. The location of the deployment.properties file is defined in \Lib\deployment.config If there are no files entitled “deployment.properties”, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-73043r1_fix)
Create the JRE deployment.properties file: No default file exists. A text file named deployment.properties, and the directory structure in which it is located must be manually created. The location must be aligned as defined in the \Lib\deployment.config file. C:\Windows\Java\Deployment\deployment.properties is an example.