TMA-CHECKPOINT-1.12
Ensure Maximum number of failed attempts allowed is set to 5 or fewer
Description
This only takes effect if Deny access after failed attempts is enabled. The number of failed login attempts that a user is allowed before being locked out. After making that many successive failed attempts, future attempts will fail. When one login attempt succeeds, counting of failed attempts stops, and the count is reset to zero. PASS requires deny-on-fail failures-allowed of 5 or fewer. Audited against the Gaia clish 'show configuration' output (run 'show configuration' in clish on each gateway and management server and save the full output).
How it is checked
Audit method: Configuration pattern
- Pattern
(?m)^set password-controls deny-on-fail failures-allowed [1-5][ \t]*$
How it is fixed
Fix method: Guidance or infrastructure patch
set password-controls deny-on-fail failures-allowed 5 save config # CIS guidance: Run the following command to set the deny-on-fail failures-allowed setting. CLI: set password-controls deny-on-fail failures-allowed 5 GUI: Navigate to User Management > Password Policy > Deny Access After Failed Login Attempts: checked and set ' Maximum number of failed attempts allowed is set to' setting to 5 or fewer.
Properties
- Operating systems
- Any
- Tags
- checkpointhardening
- Reference
- CIS Check Point Firewall Benchmark v1.1.0 - 1.12 Ensure Maximum number of failed attempts allowed is set to 5 or fewer
Check this host
Run this on a machine you are allowed to audit. The scan is read-only.
tmaegis scan --target checkpoint