ONTAP must enforce a minimum 15-character password length.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-246951	NAOT-IA-000005	SV-246951r1015270_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.

STIG	Date
NetApp ONTAP DSC 9.x Security Technical Implementation Guide	2024-08-22

Details

Check Text (C-50383r835255_chk)

Use "security login role config show -role admin -fields passwd-minlength" to see the minimum password length for the role admin.

If ONTAP is not configured to enforce a minimum 15-character password length, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-50337r945869_fix)

Configure the minimum password length for the role admin to 15 with "security login role config modify -vserver <vserver name> -role admin -passwd-minlength 15".