LockOutRealms lockOutTime attribute must be set to 600 seconds (10 minutes) for admin users.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>A LockOutRealm adds the ability to specify a lockout time that prevents further attempts after multiple failed logins. Setting the lockOutTime attribute to 600 will lock out a user account for 10 minutes. Further authentication failures during the lock out time will cause the lock out timer to reset to zero, effectively extending the lockout time. Valid authentication attempts during the lockout period will not succeed but will also not reset the lockout time. LockOutRealm is an implementation of the Tomcat Realm interface that extends the CombinedRealm to provide user lock out functionality if there are too many failed authentication attempts in a given period of time. A LockOutRealm is created by wrapping around a standard realm such as a JNDI Directory Realm which connects Tomcat to an LDAP Directory. A Catalina container (Engine, Host, or Context) may contain no more than one Realm element (although this one Realm may itself contain multiple nested Realms). In addition, the Realm associated with an Engine or a Host is automatically inherited by lower-level containers unless the lower level container explicitly defines its own Realm. If no Realm is configured for the Engine, an instance of the Null Realm will be configured for the Engine automatically.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-222982r879693_rule
- Severity
- Low
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
From the Tomcat server console as a privileged user, edit the $CATALINA_BASE/conf/server.xml file.
sudo nano $CATALINA_BASE/conf/server.xml file
Locate or add the LockOutRealm element. Set lockOutTime="600"