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V-66553

CAT III (Low)

For local accounts created on the device, the Juniper SRX Services Gateway must enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts by a user during a 15-minute time period.

Rule ID

SV-81043r1_rule

STIG

Juniper SRX SG NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R3

CCIs

CCI-000044

Discussion

By limiting the number of failed logon attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise known as brute-forcing, is reduced. Juniper SRX is unable to comply with the 15-minute time period part of this control.

Check Content

Verify the number of unsuccessful logon attempts is set to 3.

[edit]
show system login retry-options 

If the number of unsuccessful logon attempts is set to 3, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Configure the number of unsuccessful logon attempts for all login account, globally.

[edit]
set system login retry-options tries-before-disconnect 3