V-256704

Discussion

An attacker has at least two reasons to stop a web server. The first is to cause a denial of service, and the second is to put in place changes the attacker made to the web server configuration. If the Tomcat shutdown port feature is enabled, a shutdown signal can be sent to the ESX Agent Manager through this port. To ensure availability, the shutdown port must be disabled.

Check Content

At the command prompt, run the following command:

# grep 'base.shutdown.port' /etc/vmware-eam/catalina.properties

Expected result:

base.shutdown.port=-1

If the output of the command does not match the expected result, this is a finding.