9.2 Disabling auto deployment of applications

Information

Tomcat allows auto deployment of applications while Tomcat is running. It is recommended that this capability be disabled.

Rationale:

This could allow malicious or untested applications to be deployed and should be disabled.

Solution

In the $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml file, change autoDeploy to false.

autoDeploy='false'

Default Value:

autoDeploy is set to true.

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/11652

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6, CSCv7|5.1

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 56fc87bd229a16e71f432c4db15b97503e6b7018c996d6ab26151319c3eafeb2