Details
Tomcat allows auto deployment of applications while Tomcat is running. It is recommended that this capability be disabled.
Rationale:
This could allow malicious or untested applications to be deployed and should be disabled.
Solution
In the $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml file, change autoDeploy to false.
autoDeploy=’false’
Default Value:
autoDeploy is set to true.
Supportive Information
The following resource is also helpful.
This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Configuration Management.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.