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Jürgen,

On 3/5/20 01:59, "Jürgen Göres" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>>> If it is, what is the recommended mitigation? We consider using
>>> the "secret" feature (the filtering by request attributes is
>>> infeasible for us), but that would be a bit of effort and we
>>> are in a hurry.
>>>
>>
>> We're in the same position as you. External web servers talking
>> to Tomcat servers on other boxes via AJP.
>>
>> We've looked at a few options, none of which seemed great:
>>
>> * The current stable version of Apache doesn't support the
>> 'secret' attribute for AJP connectors in mod_proxy.
>
> we will use the "secret" approach. Since we use mod_jk which
> supports it, this will offer the least trouble when deploying in
> customer environments. We will generate a random secret for each
> tomcat instance.

Uhh. That will be a serious management headache.

> Since our apps already register in our service registry,we can
> just add the secret there. Our Apache HTTPD resp. a little tooling
> we wrote for it that generates the Apache config from information
> in the registry and can pick up the secret from there as well.
Interesting. So less of a headache.

Still. I would highly recommend that the entire world migrate away
from AJP. It's just a magic protocol which nobody understands and does
not need to exist anymore.

- -chris
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