cis-tomcat10-v110-10.2

DevOps & Security

Restrict access to the web administration application (Automated)

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10.2 Restrict access to the web administration application (Automated)

Description

Limit access to the web administration application to only those with a justified need.

Rationale

Limiting access to the least privilege will ensure only those people with justified need will have access to a resource. The web administration application should be limited to only administrators.

Audit Procedure

Review $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml to determine whether the RemoteAddrValve option is uncommented and configured to only allow access to systems required to connect.

Remediation

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

<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve"
allow="127\.0\.0\.1"/>

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

Default Value

By default, this configuration is not present.

References

https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/config/valve.html

CIS Controls

Controls Version	Control	IG 1	IG 2	IG 3
v8	5.4 Restrict Administrator Privileges to Dedicated Administrator AccountsRestrict administrator privileges to dedicated administrator accounts on enterprise assets. Conduct general computing activities, such as internet browsing, email, and productivity suite use, from the user's primary, non-privileged account.	●	●	●
v7	4 Controlled Use of Administrative PrivilegesControlled Use of Administrative Privileges

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