STIGUI
V-255861CAT II — Medium severitySV-255861r1265332_rule

The WebSphere Application Server must disable JSP class reloading.

Rule version WBSP-AS-000970 · STIG v2 · 2026-08-27

Discussion

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 DoW 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.

Check

From admin console, navigate to: Applications >> All applications >> [application name] >> JSP and JSP options.

If "JSP enable class reloading" is checked, this is a finding.

Fix

To disable JSP reloading:

From the admin console, navigate to: Applications >> All applications >> [application name] >> JSP and JSP options.

Uncheck "JSP enable class reloading".

Identifiers

Group ID
V-255861
Group title
SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095
Rule ID
SV-255861r1265332_rule
Check ID
C-59534r876872_chk
Fix ID
F-59477r876873_fix