Details

The catalina.policy file is used to configure security policies for Tomcat. It is recommended that access to this file has the proper permissions to properly protect from unauthorized changes.

Solution

Perform the following to restrict access to $CATALINA_HOME/conf/catalina.policy.
1. Set the owner and group owner of the contents of
$CATALINA_HOME/conf/catalina.policy to tomcat_admin and tomcat, respectively.
# chmod 770 $CATALINA_HOME/conf/catalina.policy
# chown tomcat_admin:tomcat $CATALINA_HOME/conf/catalina.policy

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://workbench.cisecurity.org/files/266

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Access Control.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.

References

• 800-53|AC-6

Source

• Tenable.com/audits