All Web applications included with Apache Tomcat that are not required must be removed.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>Removal of unneeded or non-secure functions, ports, protocols, and services mitigate the risk of unauthorized connection of devices, unauthorized transfer of information, or other exploitation of these resources. The organization must perform a periodic scan/review of the application (as required by CCI-000384) and disable functions, ports, protocols, and services deemed to be unneeded or non-secure.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-224781r505933_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
To configure the CATALINA_HOME/webapps Tomcat administrative tool to remove all Web applications that are not required, run the ISEC7 integrated installer or use the following manual procedure:
Login to the ISEC7 EMM Suite server.
Browse to <Drive>:\Program Files\ISEC7 EMM Suite\Tomcat\webapps\
Remove all folders in the directory with the exception of Manager and Host-Manager.