STIGUI
V-213518CAT I — High severitySV-213518r960963_rule

JBoss process owner interactive access must be restricted.

Rule version JBOS-AS-000220 · STIG v2 · 2025-02-20

Discussion

JBoss does not require admin rights to operate and should be run as a regular user. In addition, if the user account was to be compromised and the account was allowed interactive logon rights, this would increase the risk and attack surface against the JBoss system. The right to interactively log on to the system using the JBoss account should be limited according to the OS capabilities.

Check

Identify the user account used to run the JBoss server. Use relevant OS commands to determine logon rights to the system. This account should not have full shell/interactive access to the system.

If the user account used to operate JBoss can log on interactively, this is a finding.

Fix

Use the relevant OS commands to restrict JBoss user account from interactively logging on to the console of the JBoss system.

For Windows systems, use GPO.

For UNIX like systems using ssh DenyUsers <account id> or follow established procedure for restricting access.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-213518
Group title
SRG-APP-000141-AS-000095
Rule ID
SV-213518r960963_rule
Check ID
C-14741r296220_chk
Fix ID
F-14739r296221_fix