Ensure 'Password Policy' is enabled

HighLevel 1Automatedfortiswitch

Description

It is important to use secure and complex passwords for preventing unauthorized access to the FortiSwitch device. PASS requires the password policy enabled, applied to admin-password and minimum-length 14 or more (the CIS remediation value). Audited against FortiSwitchOS 'show full-configuration' output (standalone FortiSwitch, saved in full); patterns are scoped to the named 'config ... end' block, whose member lines are indented.

How it is checked

Audit method: Configuration pattern

Pattern: (?m)^config system password-policy\n(?:(?:[ \t]+[^\n]*\n)*?[ \t]+set status enable[ \t]*\n(?:[ \t]+[^\n]*\n)*?[ \t]+set apply-to [^\n]*\badmin-password\b[^\n]*[ \t]*\n(?:[ \t]+[^\n]*\n)*?[ \t]+set minimum-length (?:1[4-9]|[2-9]\d|1[01]\d|12[0-8])[ \t]*$|(?:[ \t]+[^\n]*\n)*?[ \t]+set status enable[ \t]*\n(?:[ \t]+[^\n]*\n)*?[ \t]+set minimum-length (?:1[4-9]|[2-9]\d|1[01]\d|12[0-8])[ \t]*\n(?:[ \t]+[^\n]*\n)*?[ \t]+set apply-to [^\n]*\badmin-password\b[^\n]*[ \t]*$|(?:[ \t]+[^\n]*\n)*?[ \t]+set apply-to [^\n]*\badmin-password\b[^\n]*[ \t]*\n(?:[ \t]+[^\n]*\n)*?[ \t]+set status enable[ \t]*\n(?:[ \t]+[^\n]*\n)*?[ \t]+set minimum-length (?:1[4-9]|[2-9]\d|1[01]\d|12[0-8])[ \t]*$|(?:[ \t]+[^\n]*\n)*?[ \t]+set apply-to [^\n]*\badmin-password\b[^\n]*[ \t]*\n(?:[ \t]+[^\n]*\n)*?[ \t]+set minimum-length (?:1[4-9]|[2-9]\d|1[01]\d|12[0-8])[ \t]*\n(?:[ \t]+[^\n]*\n)*?[ \t]+set status enable[ \t]*$|(?:[ \t]+[^\n]*\n)*?[ \t]+set minimum-length (?:1[4-9]|[2-9]\d|1[01]\d|12[0-8])[ \t]*\n(?:[ \t]+[^\n]*\n)*?[ \t]+set status enable[ \t]*\n(?:[ \t]+[^\n]*\n)*?[ \t]+set apply-to [^\n]*\badmin-password\b[^\n]*[ \t]*$|(?:[ \t]+[^\n]*\n)*?[ \t]+set minimum-length (?:1[4-9]|[2-9]\d|1[01]\d|12[0-8])[ \t]*\n(?:[ \t]+[^\n]*\n)*?[ \t]+set apply-to [^\n]*\badmin-password\b[^\n]*[ \t]*\n(?:[ \t]+[^\n]*\n)*?[ \t]+set status enable[ \t]*$)

How it is fixed

Fix method: Guidance or infrastructure patch

config system password-policy set status enable set apply-to admin-password ipsec-preshared-key set minimum-length 14 end # CIS guidance: Can be modified from CLI. From CLI, do the following: config system password-policy set status enable set apply-to admin-password ipsec-preshared-key set minimum-length 14 end

Properties

Operating systems: Any
Tags: fortiswitchauthentication
Reference: CIS FortiSwitch Benchmark v1.0.0 - 1.3.1 Ensure 'Password Policy' is enabled

Check this host

Run this on a machine you are allowed to audit. The scan is read-only.

shell

tmaegis scan --target fortiswitch