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The FortiGate device must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-234203FGFW-ND-000220SV-234203r984092_ruleCCI-000205medium
Description
Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. Password length is one factor of several that helps to determine strength and how long it takes to crack a password. The shorter the password, the lower the number of possible combinations that need to be tested before the password is compromised. Use of more characters in a password helps to exponentially increase the time and/or resources required to compromise the password.
STIGDate
Fortinet FortiGate Firewall NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide2025-11-19

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 4 frameworks
SCF0 mappings

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Also reachable in 3 hops (3) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

IAC-10Authenticator Management
0.50
IAC-10.1Password-Based Authentication
0.50
IAC-10.4Automated Support For Password Strength
0.50
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (48) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

AC-10Concurrent Session Control
1.00
AC-12Session Termination
1.00
AC-17(10)Authenticate Remote Commands
1.00
AC-2(1)Automated System Account Management
1.00
AC-2(10)Shared and Group Account Credential Change
1.00
AC-2(11)Usage Conditions
1.00
AC-2(2)Automated Temporary and Emergency Account Management
1.00
AC-2(3)Disable Accounts
1.00
AC-2(4)Automated Audit Actions
1.00
AC-3Access Enforcement
1.00

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NIST 800-1710 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (4) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

3.5.10
1.00
3.5.7
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3.5.8
1.00
3.5.9
1.00
CCI1 mapping
CCI-000205
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-234203r984092_chk)

Log in to the FortiGate GUI with Super-Admin privilege. 1. Click System. 2. Click Settings. 3. Navigate to Password Policy. 4. Verify Password scope is enabled for Admin. 5. Verify the Minimum length is set to 15. If the Password scope is OFF and the Minimum length is not set to 15, this is a finding. or Log in to the FortiGate GUI with Super-Admin privilege: 1. Open a CLI console, via SSH or available from the GUI 2. Run the following command: # show full-configuration system password-policy | grep -i minimum set minimum-length 15 If the minimum-length parameter is not set to 15, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-37353r611797_fix)

Log in to the FortiGate GUI with Super-Admin privilege. 1. Click System. 2. Click Settings. 3. Navigate to Password Policy. 4. On the Password scope option, click Admin. 5. Enter the Minimum length value of 15. or Log in to the FortiGate GUI with Super-Admin privilege. 1. Open a CLI console, via SSH or available from the GUI. 2. Run the following command: # config system password-policy # set status enable # set minimum-length 15 # end--+