CA VM:Secure product PASSWORD user exit must be coded with the PWLIST option properly set.
Severity | Group ID | Group Title | Version | Rule ID | Date | STIG Version |
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| medium | V-237913 | SRG-OS-000077-GPOS-00045 | IBMZ-VM-000510 | SV-237913r858963_rule | 2022-08-31 | 2 |
| Description |
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| Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. If the information system or application allows the user to consecutively reuse their password when that password has exceeded its defined lifetime, the end result is a password that is not changed as per policy requirements. |
| ℹ️ Check |
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| If there is no CA VM:Secure Product PASSWORD user exit in use, this is a finding. Examine the CA VM:Secure product PASSWORD user exit for requirement that uses a "PWLIST" option that prohibits password reuse for five generations. If this code is missing, this is a finding. |
| ✔️ Fix |
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| Engineer code in the CA VM:Secure Product PASSWORD user exit that uses a "PWLIST" that prohibits password reuse for five generations. |