For local accounts created on the device, the Juniper SRX Services Gateway must enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts by a user during a 15-minute time period.
Severity | Group ID | Group Title | Version | Rule ID | Date | STIG Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| low | V-223188 | SRG-APP-000065-NDM-000214 | JUSX-DM-000030 | SV-223188r1018645_rule | 2024-12-20 | 3 |
Description
By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise known as brute-forcing, is reduced.
Juniper SRX is unable to comply with the 15-minute time period part of this control.
ℹ️ Check
Verify the number of unsuccessful logon attempts is set to 3.
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show system login retry-options
If the number of unsuccessful logon attempts is not set to 3, this is a finding.
✔️ Fix
Configure the number of unsuccessful logon attempts for all login account, globally.
[edit]
set system login retry-options tries-before-disconnect 3