TMA-CHECKPOINT-1.6
Ensure Warn users before password expiration is set to 7 days
Description
The number of days before the password expires that the user starts getting warned they will have to change it. A user that does not log in will not see the warning. PASS requires expiration-warning-days of 7 or less (and not 0). 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 expiration-warning-days [1-7][ \t]*$
How it is fixed
Fix method: Guidance or infrastructure patch
set password-controls expiration-warning-days 7 save config # CIS guidance: Run the following command to set the expiration-warning-days setting. CLI: set password-controls expiration-warning-days 7 GUI: Navigate to User Management > Password Policy > Mandatory Password Changes Set 'Warn users before password expiration' is set to 7 days or less.
Properties
- Operating systems
- Any
- Tags
- checkpointauthentication
- Reference
- CIS Check Point Firewall Benchmark v1.1.0 - 1.6 Ensure Warn users before password expiration is set to 7 days
Check this host
Run this on a machine you are allowed to audit. The scan is read-only.
tmaegis scan --target checkpoint