Details
The Tomcat $CATALINA_HOME/webapps directory contains web applications that are deployed through Tomcat. It is recommended that the ownership of this directory be tomcat_admin:tomcat. It is also recommended that the permissions on $CATALINA_HOME/webapps prevent read, write, and execute for the world (o-rwx) and prevent write access to the group (g-w).
Solution
Perform the following to restrict access to Tomcat webapps directory:
1. Set the ownership of the $CATALINA_HOME/webapps to tomcat_admin:tomcat.
2. Remove read, write, and execute permissions for the world.
# chown tomcat_admin:tomcat $CATALINA_HOME/webapps
# chmod g-w,o-rwx $CATALINA_HOME/webapps
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.