The Apache Tomcat shutdown port must be disabled.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
Tomcat uses a port (defaults to 8005) as a shutdown port. Someone could Telnet to the machine using this port and send the default command SHUTDOWN. Tomcat and all web apps would shut down in that case, which is a denial-of-service attack and would cause an unwanted service interruption.
- ID
- SV-224789r1013876_rule
- Version
- ISEC-06-551300
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Log in to the SPHERE server.
Browse to Program Files\Isec7 SPHERE\Tomcat\Conf.
Open the server.xml with Notepad.exe.
Select Edit >> Find, and then search for "Shutdown".
Change the shutdown to "-1".