The WebGUI of the MQ Appliance network device must terminate all network connections associated with a device management session at the end of the session, or the session must be terminated after 10 minutes of inactivity except to fulfill documented and validated mission requirements.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-74977	MQMH-ND-000750	SV-89651r1_rule		Medium

Description

Terminating an idle session within a short time period reduces the window of opportunity for unauthorized personnel to take control of a management session enabled on the console or console port that has been left unattended. In addition, quickly terminating an idle session will also free up resources committed by the managed network element. Terminating network connections associated with communications sessions includes, for example, deallocating associated TCP/IP address/port pairs at the operating system level or deallocating networking assignments at the application level if multiple application sessions are using a single, operating system-level network connection. This does not mean that the device terminates all sessions or network access; it only ends the inactive session and releases the resources associated with that session.

STIG	Date
IBM MQ Appliance v9.0 NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide	2017-06-06

Details

Check Text ( C-74829r1_chk )
Log on to the MQ Appliance CLI as a privileged user. Enter: co web-mgmt show If the idle-timeout value is not 600 seconds or less, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-81593r1_fix)
Log on to the MQ Appliance CLI as a privileged user. Enter: co web-mgmt idle-timeout <600 seconds or less> exit write mem y