STIGUI
V-252192CAT II — Medium severitySV-252192r997774_rule

The HPE Nimble must enforce password complexity by requiring that at least one lowercase character be used.

Rule version HPEN-NM-000070 · STIG v2 · 2024-06-20

Discussion

Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks.

Password complexity is one factor of several that determine how long it takes to crack a password. The more complex the password, the greater the number of possible combinations that need to be tested before the password is compromised.

Multifactor authentication (MFA) is required for all administrative and user accounts on network devices, except for an account of last resort and (where applicable) a root account. Passwords should only be used when MFA using PKI is not available, and for the account of last resort and root account.

Check

Type "userpolicy --info" and review output for line: "Minimum Lowercase characters".

If it is 1 or more, this is not a finding.

Fix

Set minimum number of lowercase characters to 1 by typing "userpolicy --edit --lower 1".

Identifiers

Group ID
V-252192
Group title
SRG-APP-000167-NDM-000255
Rule ID
SV-252192r997774_rule
Check ID
C-55648r997773_chk
Fix ID
F-55598r814055_fix