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The vCenter UI service must be configured to fail to a known safe state if system initialization fails.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-259113VCUI-80-000062SV-259113r961122_ruleCCI-001190medium
Description
Determining a safe state for failure and weighing that against a potential denial of service for users depends on what type of application the web server is hosting. It is preferable that the service abort startup on any initialization failure rather than continuing in a degraded, and potentially insecure, state.
STIGDate
VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance User Interface (UI) Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-05-23

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 4 frameworks
SCF0 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (9) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

BCD-01Business Continuity Management System (BCMS)
1.00
CFG-02Secure Baseline Configurations
1.00
CRY-01Use of Cryptographic Controls
1.00
DCH-01Data Protection
1.00
IAC-21Least Privilege
1.00
SEA-01Secure Engineering Principles
1.00
SEA-01.2Achieving Resilience Requirements
1.00
SEA-02Alignment With Enterprise Architecture
1.00
SEA-07.2Fail Secure
0.50
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (7) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

AU-3(2)Centralized Management of Planned Audit Record Content
1.00
AU-5Response to Audit Logging Process Failures
1.00
SC-24Fail in Known State
1.00
SC-5Denial-of-service Protection
1.00
SC-7Boundary Protection
1.00
SC-7(11)Restrict Incoming Communications Traffic
1.00
SC-7(5)Deny by Default — Allow by Exception
1.00
CCI1 mapping
CCI-001190
1.00
NIST CSF 2.00 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (2) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

PR.DS-10
1.00
PR.IR-03
1.00

Who does this work

13 NICE work roles and 8 EC-Council certifications.

This is an inference across published mappings, not a single claim by anyone. This check maps to a control, which maps to a Cybersecurity Framework outcome, which NIST assigns to the work roles below. EC-Council separately maps its certifications to those same roles.

A certification prepares someone for a role. It is not evidence that a holder is qualified, and neither NIST nor EC-Council has stated that any certification here addresses this check.

Work-role assignments published by NIST (NICE Framework Components 2.2.0 and the CSF 2.0 OLIR crosswalk). Certification mappings published by EC-Council.

Details

Check Text (C-259113r961122_chk)

At the command line, run the following command: # grep EXIT_ON_INIT_FAILURE /usr/lib/vmware-vsphere-ui/server/conf/catalina.properties Example result: org.apache.catalina.startup.EXIT_ON_INIT_FAILURE=true If there are no results, or if the "org.apache.catalina.startup.EXIT_ON_INIT_FAILURE" is not set to "true", this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-62762r935242_fix)

Navigate to and open: /usr/lib/vmware-vsphere-ui/server/conf/catalina.properties Add or change the following line: org.apache.catalina.startup.EXIT_ON_INIT_FAILURE=true Restart the service with the following command: # vmon-cli --restart vsphere-ui