ErrorReportValve showReport must be set to false.
Severity | Group ID | Group Title | Version | Rule ID | Date | STIG Version |
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| medium | V-222977 | SRG-APP-000267-AS-000170 | TCAT-AS-000940 | SV-222977r961170_rule | 2025-02-11 | 3 |
| Description |
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| The Error Report Valve is a simple error handler for HTTP status codes that will generate and return HTML error pages. It can also be configured to return pre-defined static HTML pages for specific status codes and/or exception types. Disabling showReport will result in no error message or stack trace being send to the client. This setting can be tailored on a per-application basis within each application specific web.xml. |
| ℹ️ Check |
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| As an elevated user on the Tomcat server run the following command: sudo grep -i ErrorReportValve $CATALINA_BASE/conf/server.xml file. If the ErrorReportValve element is not defined and showReport set to "false", this is a finding. EXAMPLE: <Host ...> ... <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve" showReport="false"/> ... </Host> |
| ✔️ Fix |
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| As a privileged user on the Tomcat server: Edit the $CATALINA_BASE/conf/server.xml file. Create or modify an ErrorReportValve <Valve> element nested beneath each <Host> element. EXAMPLE: <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="false"> ... <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve" showReport="false" /> </Host> Restart the Tomcat server: sudo systemctl restart tomcat sudo systemctl daemon-reload |