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JMX authentication must be secured.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Java Management Extensions (JMX) provides the means to remotely manage the Java VM. When enabling the JMX agent for remote monitoring, the user must enable authentication.

ID
SV-222963r960972_rule
Version
TCAT-AS-000610
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

If using JMX for management of the Tomcat server, start the Tomcat server by adding the following command line flags to the systemd startup scripts in /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service.

Environment='CATALINA_OPTS -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=true -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=true'

sudo systemctl start tomcat
sudo systemctl daemon-reload