Details
The Tomcat $CATALINA_HOME/temp/ directory is used by Tomcat to persist temporary information to disk. It is recommended that the ownership of this directory be tomcat_admin:tomcat. It is also recommended that the permissions on this directory prevent read, write, and execute for the world (o-rwx).
Solution
Perform the following to restrict access to Tomcat temp directory:
1. Set the ownership of the $CATALINA_HOME/temp to tomcat_admin:tomcat.
2. Remove read, write, and execute permissions for the world
# chown tomcat_admin:tomcat $CATALINA_HOME/temp
# chmod o-rwx $CATALINA_HOME/temp
Supportive Information
The following resource is also helpful.
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.