JUNI-ND-000550 - The Juniper router must be configured to enforce a minimum 15-character password length.

Information

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.

Solution

Configure the router to enforce a minimum 15-character password length as shown in the example below.

[edit system login]
set password minimum-length 15

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Juniper_Router_Y24M07_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

References: 800-53|IA-5(1)(a), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-004066, Rule-ID|SV-217323r991982_rule, STIG-ID|JUNI-ND-000550, STIG-Legacy|SV-101231, STIG-Legacy|V-91131, Vuln-ID|V-217323

Plugin: Juniper

Control ID: 0ac508a37b9cfe63d117a686841caf45de5b628e80c3382aaacde6b154d58ed0