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The vCenter Perfcharts service must have Autodeploy disabled.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-259095 VCPF-80-000139 SV-259095r960963_rule Medium
Description
Tomcat allows auto-deployment of applications while it is running. This can allow untested or malicious applications to be automatically loaded into production. Autodeploy must be disabled in production.
STIG Date
VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Perfcharts Security Technical Implementation Guide 2024-07-11

Details

Check Text ( C-62835r934941_chk )
At the command prompt, run the following command:

# xmllint --xpath "//Host/@autoDeploy" /usr/lib/vmware-perfcharts/tc-instance/conf/server.xml

Expected result:

autoDeploy="false"

If "autoDeploy" does not equal "false", this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-62744r934942_fix)
Navigate to and open:

/usr/lib/vmware-perfcharts/tc-instance/conf/server.xml

Navigate to the node and configure with the value "autoDeploy="false"".

Restart the service with the following command:

# vmon-cli --restart perfcharts