Details

Use the transport-guarantee attribute to ensure SSL protection when accessing the manager application.

Rationale:

By default when accessing the manager application, login information is sent over the wire in plain text. By setting the transport-guarantee within web.xml, SSL is enforced.

Note: This requires SSL to be configured.

Solution

Set to CONFIDENTIAL in $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/manager/WEB-INF/web.xml:

CONFIDENTIAL

Default Value:

By default this configuration is not present.

References:

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Securing_tomcat

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://workbench.cisecurity.org/files/2506

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: System and Communications Protection.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.

References

• 800-53|SC-8
• CSCv7|14.4

Source

• Tenable.com/audits