I have extensively searched the web, but I can't find a definitive
answer on this. Here's the situation.

 

I have tomcat 4.1.31 with Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard
Edition (build 1.5.0_15-b04), running on a Solaris 8 box. Due to custom
production apps we can not upgrade tomcat at this time (the transition
to tomcat 6 is in progress but not yet completed). Our security scanner
is reporting the following weak ciphers on the port we use for tomcat.

EXP-DES-CBC-SHA Weak Security

EXP-RC4-MD5 Weak Security

DES-CBC-SHA Weak Security

 

The list of ciphers I have configured in servers.xml is

 

ciphers="SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5,SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA,SSL_DHE_RSA_W
ITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA"

 

as you can see none of the weak ciphers detected by the scanner are
listed in the servers.xml. The question is how do I block these weak
ciphers and is it possible that an application other than tomcat might
be providing/serving these ciphers (such as a java certificate etc.) on
the port used by tomcat.

 

 

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Zahid

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