Details

Tomcat listens on TCP port 8005 to accept shutdown requests. By connecting to this port and sending the SHUTDOWN command, all applications within Tomcat are halted. The shutdown port is not exposed to the network as it is bound to the loopback interface. It is recommended that a nondeterministic value be set for the shutdown attribute in $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml.

Solution

Update the shutdown attribute in $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml as follows:

Note: NONDETERMINISTICVALUE should be replaced with a sequence of random characters.

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: Configuration Management.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.

References

• 800-53|CM-6b.

Source

• Tenable.com/audits