If someone wanted to use MEJB, configuring EJBNetworkService to
listen to only localhost is an option, i.e. only local monitoring can
be done. For  all other cases turning off MEJB is a better option
because it allows people to use remote EJBs.

Thanks
Anita
 
--- Donald Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Why not recommend setting it to only listen for localhost connections
> instead 
> of the default 0.0.0.0 for now, to match the default setting used by
> RemoteDeploy?
> 
> <module name="org.apache.geronimo.configs/openejb/2.0.1/car">
>      <gbean name="EJBNetworkService">
>          <attribute name="host">127.0.0.1</attribute>
>      </gbean>
> </module>
> 
> 
> -Donald
> 
> Anita Kulshreshtha wrote:
> > All, 
> >     We have discovered a security vulnerability in Geronimo, where
> the
> > management EJB (MEJB) allows unchallenged access to Geronimo
> internals.
> > A temporary workaround is to make the following modifications to
> the
> > configuration file at <GERONIMO_HOME>/var/config.xml. This will
> disable
> > MEJB.
> > 
> > <module name="org.apache.geronimo.configs/openejb/2.0.1/car">
> > <gbean name="EJBNetworkService">
> > .........................................
> > </gbean>
> > <gbean load="false" name="ejb/mgmt/MEJB"/>
> > </module>
> > 
> > We will be releasing a new version soon to control access to MEJB
> in a
> > more secure way. This issue will be tracked in
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-3456
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Anita
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >        
> >
>
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