Title

RHEL 9 must enforce a delay of at least four seconds between logon prompts following a failed logon attempt. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

Increasing the time between a failed authentication attempt and reprompting to enter credentials helps to slow a single-threaded brute force attack.

Check Content

Verify RHEL 9 enforces a delay of at least four seconds between console logon prompts following a failed logon attempt with the following command: $ grep -i fail_delay /etc/login.defs FAIL_DELAY 4 If the value of "FAIL_DELAY" is not set to "4" or greater, or the line is commented out, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the RHEL 9 to enforce a delay of at least four seconds between logon prompts following a failed console logon attempt. Modify the "/etc/login.defs" file to set the "FAIL_DELAY" parameter to 4 or greater: FAIL_DELAY 4

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-258071r926200_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-258071

Group Title: SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00226

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