STIGUI
V-223180CAT III — Low severitySV-223180r960735_rule

The Juniper SRX Services Gateway must limit the number of concurrent sessions to a maximum of 10 or less for remote access using SSH.

Rule version JUSX-DM-000001 · STIG v3 · 2024-12-20

Discussion

The connection-limit command limits the total number of concurrent SSH sessions. To help thwart brute force authentication attacks, the connection limit should be as restrictive as operationally practical

Juniper Networks recommends the best practice of setting 10 (or less) for the connection-limit.

This configuration will permit up to 10 users to log in to the device simultaneously, but an attempt to log an 11th user into the device will fail. The attempt will remain in a waiting state until a session is terminated and made available.

Check

Verify the Juniper SRX sets a connection-limit for the SSH protocol.

Show system services ssh

If the SSH connection-limit is not set to 10 or less, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the SSH protocol to limit connection and sessions per connection.

[edit] set system services ssh connection-limit 10 set system services ssh max-sessions-per-connection 1

Identifiers

Group ID
V-223180
Group title
SRG-APP-000001-NDM-000200
Rule ID
SV-223180r960735_rule
Check ID
C-24853r513233_chk
Fix ID
F-24841r513234_fix