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The vCenter ESX Agent Manager service default ROOT web application must be removed.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

<VulnDiscussion>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.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>

ID
SV-259030r960963_rule
Severity
Medium
References
Updated



Remediation - Manual Procedure

At the command prompt, run the following command:

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