The application server must adhere to the principles of least functionality by providing only essential capabilities.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-204743	SRG-APP-000141	SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095	SV-204743r960963_rule	2025-02-11	4

Description
Application servers provide a myriad of differing processes, features and functionalities. Some of these processes may be deemed to be unnecessary or too unsecure to run on a production DoD system. Application servers must provide the capability to disable or deactivate functionality and services that are deemed to be non-essential to the server mission or can adversely impact server performance, for example, disabling dynamic JSP reloading on production application servers as a best practice.

Description

Application servers provide a myriad of differing processes, features and functionalities. Some of these processes may be deemed to be unnecessary or too unsecure to run on a production DoD system. Application servers must provide the capability to disable or deactivate functionality and services that are deemed to be non-essential to the server mission or can adversely impact server performance, for example, disabling dynamic JSP reloading on production application servers as a best practice.

ℹ️ Check
Review the application server documentation and configuration to determine if the application server can disable non-essential features and capabilities. If the application server is not configured to meet this requirement, this is a finding.

✔️ Fix
Configure the application server to use only essential features and capabilities.