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V-258995CAT II — Medium severitySV-258995r1265170_rule

The vCenter STS service example applications must be removed.

Rule version VCST-80-000141 · STIG v2 · 2026-08-26

Discussion

Tomcat provides example applications, documentation, and other directories in the default installation that do not serve a production use. These files must be deleted.

Check

At the command prompt, run the following command:

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

If the examples folder exists or contains any content, this is a finding.

Fix

At the command prompt, run the following command:

# rm -rf /var/opt/apache-tomcat/webapps/examples

Identifiers

Group ID
V-258995
Group title
SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095
Rule ID
SV-258995r1265170_rule
Check ID
C-62735r934641_chk
Fix ID
F-62644r934642_fix