JMX authentication must be secured.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>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.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-222963r879590_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - 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