Details

Limit access to the web administration application to only those with a required needed.

Solution

For the administration application, edit $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml and uncomment the following:

Note: The RemoteAddrValve property expects a regular expression, therefore periods and other regular expression meta-characters must be escaped.

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(3)

Source

• Tenable.com/audits