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V-256681CAT II — Medium severitySV-256681r984352_rule

ESX Agent Manager must only run one webapp.

Rule version VCEM-70-000009 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-10

Discussion

VMware ships ESX Agent Managers on the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) with one webapp. Any other path is potentially malicious and must be removed.

Satisfies: SRG-APP-000131-WSR-000073, SRG-APP-000141-WSR-000075

Check

At the command prompt, run the following command:

# ls -A /usr/lib/vmware-eam/web/webapps

Expected result:

eam

If the output does not match the expected result, this is a finding.

Fix

For each unexpected directory returned in the check, run the following command:

# rm /usr/lib/vmware-eam/web/webapps/<NAME>

Restart the service with the following command:

# vmon-cli --restart eam

Identifiers

Group ID
V-256681
Group title
SRG-APP-000131-WSR-000073
Rule ID
SV-256681r984352_rule
Check ID
C-60356r888597_chk
Fix ID
F-60299r888598_fix