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V-213523

CAT III (Low)

Welcome Web Application must be disabled.

Rule ID

SV-213523r960963_rule

STIG

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.3 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V2R6

CCIs

CCI-000381

Discussion

The Welcome to JBoss web page provides a redirect to the JBoss admin console, which, by default, runs on TCP 9990 as well as redirects to the Online User Guide and Online User Groups hosted at locations on the Internet. The welcome page is unnecessary and should be disabled or replaced with a valid web page.

Check Content

Use a web browser and browse to HTTP://JBOSS SERVER IP ADDRESS:8080

If the JBoss Welcome page is displayed, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Use the Management CLI script JBOSS_HOME/bin/jboss-cli.sh to run the following command. You may need to change the profile to modify a different managed domain profile, or remove the "/profile=default" portion of the command for a standalone server.

"/profile=default/subsystem=web/virtual-server=default-host:writeattribute(name=enable-welcome-root,value=false)"

To configure your web application to use the root context (/) as its URL address, modify the applications jboss-web.xml, which is located in the applications META-INF/ or WEB-INF/ directory. Replace its <context-root> directive with one that looks like the following:

<jboss-web>
         <context-root>/</context-root>
</jboss-web>