Title

The HYCU virtual appliance must enforce a minimum 15-character password length. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

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.

Check Content

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

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

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-268266r1038758_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-268266

Group Title: SRG-APP-000164-NDM-000252

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