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The vCenter UI service "ErrorReportValve showServerInfo" must be set to "false".

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-259115VCUI-80-000067SV-259115r961167_ruleCCI-001312medium
Description
The Error Report Valve is a simple error handler for HTTP status codes that will generate and return HTML error pages. It can also be configured to return predefined static HTML pages for specific status codes and/or exception types. Disabling "showServerInfo" will only return the HTTP status code and remove all CSS from the default nonerror-related HTTP responses.
STIGDate
VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance User Interface (UI) Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-05-23

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 3 frameworks
SCF0 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (1) 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.

TDA-19Error Handling
1.00
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (19) 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.

AC-17(1)Monitoring and Control
1.00
AC-6(9)Log Use of Privileged Functions
1.00
AU-10Non-repudiation
1.00
AU-12Audit Record Generation
1.00
AU-14(1)System Start-up
1.00
AU-3Content of Audit Records
1.00
AU-3(1)Additional Audit Information
1.00
AU-9Protection of Audit Information
1.00
CM-3(5)Automated Security Response
1.00
CM-5(1)Automated Access Enforcement and Audit Records
1.00

+9 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

CCI1 mapping
CCI-001312
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-259115r961167_chk)

At the command prompt, run the following command: # xmllint --xpath '/Server/Service/Engine/Host/Valve[@className="org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve"]' /usr/lib/vmware-vsphere-ui/server/conf/server.xml Example result: <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve" showServerInfo="false" showReport="false"/> If the "ErrorReportValve" element is not defined or "showServerInfo" is not set to "false", this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-62764r935248_fix)

Navigate to and open: /usr/lib/vmware-vsphere-ui/server/conf/server.xml Locate the following Host block: <Host ...> ... </Host> Inside this block, add or update the following on a new line: <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve" showServerInfo="false" showReport="false"/> Restart the service with the following command: # vmon-cli --restart vsphere-ui