TMA-CHECKPOINT-1.2
Ensure Disallow Palindromes is selected
Description
A palindrome is a sequence of letters, numbers, or characters that can be read the same in each direction. racecar, bob, and noon are some of the famous examples of Palindrome. PASS requires password-controls palindrome-check on. 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 palindrome-check on[ \t]*$
How it is fixed
Fix method: Guidance or infrastructure patch
set password-controls palindrome-check on save config # CIS guidance: Run the following command to set the palindrome-check setting. CLI: set password-controls palindrome-check on GUI: Navigate to User Management > Password Policy Ensure 'Disallow Palindrome' is checked.
Properties
- Operating systems
- Any
- Tags
- checkpointthreat-prevention
- Reference
- CIS Check Point Firewall Benchmark v1.1.0 - 1.2 Ensure Disallow Palindromes is selected
Check this host
Run this on a machine you are allowed to audit. The scan is read-only.
tmaegis scan --target checkpoint