The HYCU virtual appliance must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.
Overview
| Finding ID | Version | Rule ID | IA Controls | Severity |
| V-268266 | HYCU-ND-000580 | SV-268266r1038758_rule | CCI-004066 | medium |
| 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. | ||||
| STIG | Date | |||
| HYCU Protege Security Technical Implementation Guide | 2024-10-29 | |||
Details
Check Text (C-268266r1038758_chk)
Check for the value of the "minlen" option in "/etc/security/pwquality.conf" with the following command:
grep minlen /etc/security/pwquality.conf
If the minlen value is not set to "15", this is a finding.
Check for the value of the "user.password.min.length" variable in "/opt/grizzly/config.properties" HYCU configuration file with the following command:
grep user.password.min.length /opt/grizzly/config.properties
If the value is not set to 15 or more, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-72190r1038757_fix)
Add the following line to "/etc/security/pwquality.conf" (or modify the line to have the required value).
minlen = 15
Add or modify the following line in the /opt/grizzly/config.properties configuration file:
user.password.min.length=15
Reload the HYCU application by running the following command:
sudo systemctl reload grizzly