STIGUI
V-223220CAT II — Medium severitySV-223220r1015755_rule

For local accounts using password authentication (i.e., the root account and the account of last resort), the Juniper SRX Services Gateway must enforce password complexity by requiring at least one lowercase character be used.

Rule version JUSX-DM-000131 · STIG v3 · 2024-12-20

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.

Check

Verify the default local password enforces password complexity by requiring at least one lowercase character be used.

[edit] show system login password

If the minimum-lower-cases is not set to at least 1, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the default local password to enforce password complexity by requiring at least one lowercase character be used.

[edit] set system login password minimum-lower-cases 1

Identifiers

Group ID
V-223220
Group title
SRG-APP-000167-NDM-000255
Rule ID
SV-223220r1015755_rule
Check ID
C-24893r997581_chk
Fix ID
F-24881r997582_fix