10.2 Restrict access to the web administration application

Information

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 a justified need will have access to a resource. The web administration application should be limited to only administrators.

Solution

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-8.0-doc/config/valve.html

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/files/2506

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL

References: 800-53|AC-6(10), CSCv7|4.7

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 12de382e3e2c7f0b635783ca8b4e191dd6b867d1b5a57991034dd1d58ad0947e