Palo Alto Networks
TMA-PALOALTO-1.3.9
Ensure 'Prevent Password Reuse Limit' is set to 24 or more passwords
Description
This determines the number of unique passwords that have to be most recently used for a user account before a previous password can be reused. PASS requires password-history-count of 24 or more. Audited against the PAN-OS running configuration in set format: run 'set cli config-output-format set', then 'configure' and 'show' (or 'show config running') and save the full output.
How it is checked
Audit method: Configuration pattern
- Pattern
(?m)^set mgt-config password-complexity password-history-count (?:2[4-9]|[3-9]\d|[1-9]\d\d+)[ \t]*$
How it is fixed
Fix method: Guidance or infrastructure patch
configure set mgt-config password-complexity password-history-count 24 commit # CIS guidance: Navigate to Device > Setup > Management > Minimum Password Complexity. Set Prevent Password Reuse Limit to greater than or equal to 24
Properties
- Operating systems
- Any
- Tags
- paloaltoauthentication
- Reference
- CIS Palo Alto Firewall 11 Benchmark v1.2.0 - 1.3.9 Ensure 'Prevent Password Reuse Limit' is set to 24 or more passwords
Check this host
Run this on a machine you are allowed to audit. The scan is read-only.
tmaegis scan --target paloalto