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V-259064CAT II — Medium severitySV-259064r1265170_rule

The vCenter Lookup service default ROOT web application must be removed.

Rule version VCLU-80-000142 · STIG v2 · 2026-08-26

Discussion

The default ROOT web application includes the version of Tomcat being used, links to Tomcat documentation, examples, FAQs, and mailing lists. The default ROOT web application must be removed from a publicly accessible instance and a more appropriate default page shown to users.

Check

At the command prompt, run the following command:

# ls -l /var/opt/apache-tomcat/webapps/ROOT

If the ROOT web application contains any content, this is a finding.

Fix

At the command prompt, run the following command:

# rm -rf /var/opt/apache-tomcat/webapps/ROOT/*

Identifiers

Group ID
V-259064
Group title
SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095
Rule ID
SV-259064r1265170_rule
Check ID
C-62804r934848_chk
Fix ID
F-62713r934849_fix