The NSX-T Manager must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-251780	TNDM-3X-000041	SV-251780r919231_rule		Medium

Description
Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. Password length is one factor of several that helps to determine strength and how long it takes to crack a password. The shorter the password, the lower the number of possible combinations that need to be tested before the password is compromised. Use of more characters in a password helps to exponentially increase the time and/or resources required to compromise the password.

Description

Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. Password length is one factor of several that helps to determine strength and how long it takes to crack a password. The shorter the password, the lower the number of possible combinations that need to be tested before the password is compromised. Use of more characters in a password helps to exponentially increase the time and/or resources required to compromise the password.

STIG	Date
VMware NSX-T Manager NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide	2023-06-22

Details

Check Text ( C-55240r919230_chk )
From an NSX-T Manager shell, run the following command(s): > get auth-policy minimum-password-length Expected result: 15 characters If the "minimum-password-length" is not set to 15 or greater, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-55194r810342_fix)
From an NSX-T Manager shell, run the following command(s): > set auth-policy minimum-password-length 15