TMA-CHECKPOINT-1.3
Ensure Password Complexity is set to 3
Description
This checks all new passwords to ensure that they meet basic requirements for strong passwords. The required number of character types are: Upper case alphabetic (A-Z), Lower case alphabetic (a-z), Digits (0-9), Other (everything else). A value of "1" effectively disables this check. Changes to this setting do not affect existing passwords. PASS requires password-controls complexity 3 (or 4). 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 complexity [34][ \t]*$
How it is fixed
Fix method: Guidance or infrastructure patch
set password-controls complexity 3 save config # CIS guidance: Run the following command to set the password-controls complexity setting. CLI: set password-controls complexity 3 GUI: Navigate to User Management > Password Policy > Password Complexity: checked the '3 - Require three character types' setting.
Properties
- Operating systems
- Any
- Tags
- checkpointauthentication
- Reference
- CIS Check Point Firewall Benchmark v1.1.0 - 1.3 Ensure Password Complexity is set to 3
Check this host
Run this on a machine you are allowed to audit. The scan is read-only.
tmaegis scan --target checkpoint