The vCenter STS service shutdown port must be disabled.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-258990	VCST-80-000134	SV-258990r960963_rule		Medium

Description
Tomcat by default listens on TCP port 8005 to accept shutdown requests. By connecting to this port and sending the SHUTDOWN command, all applications within Tomcat are halted. The shutdown port is not exposed to the network as it is bound to the loopback interface. Setting the port to "-1" in $CATALINA_BASE/conf/server.xml instructs Tomcat to not listen for the shutdown command.

STIG	Date
VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Secure Token Service (STS) Security Technical Implementation Guide	2024-07-11

Details

Check Text ( C-62730r934626_chk )
At the command prompt, run the following commands: # xmllint --xpath "//Server/@port" /usr/lib/vmware-sso/vmware-sts/conf/server.xml # grep 'base.shutdown.port' /usr/lib/vmware-sso/vmware-sts/conf/catalina.properties Example results: port="${base.shutdown.port}" base.shutdown.port=-1 If "port" does not equal "${base.shutdown.port}", this is a finding. If "base.shutdown.port" does not equal "-1", this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-62730r934626_chk )

At the command prompt, run the following commands:

# xmllint --xpath "//Server/@port" /usr/lib/vmware-sso/vmware-sts/conf/server.xml
# grep 'base.shutdown.port' /usr/lib/vmware-sso/vmware-sts/conf/catalina.properties

Example results:

port="${base.shutdown.port}"
base.shutdown.port=-1

If "port" does not equal "${base.shutdown.port}", this is a finding.

If "base.shutdown.port" does not equal "-1", this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-62639r934627_fix)
Navigate to and open: /usr/lib/vmware-sso/vmware-sts/conf/catalina.properties Add or modify the setting "base.shutdown.port=-1" in the "catalina.properties" file. Navigate to and open: /usr/lib/vmware-sso/vmware-sts/conf/server.xml Configure the node with the value: port="${base.shutdown.port}" Restart the service with the following command: # vmon-cli --restart sts