The NSX Manager must enforce a minimum 15-character password length for local accounts.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-265316	SRG-APP-000164-NDM-000252	NMGR-4X-000039	SV-265316r994171_rule	2024-12-13	1

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.

ℹ️ Check
From an NSX Manager shell, run the following command: > get password-complexity If the minimum password length is not 15 or greater, this is a finding.

✔️ Fix
From an NSX Manager shell, run the following command: > set password-complexity minimum-password-length 15