STIGQter: STIG Summary: VMware vSphere 8.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS 4.0 Security Technical Implementation Guide Version: 1 Release: 1 Benchmark Date: 31 Oct 2023:

The Photon operating system must persist lockouts between system reboots.

DISA Rule

SV-258862r933647_rule

Vulnerability Number

V-258862

Group Title

SRG-OS-000021-GPOS-00005

Rule Version

PHTN-40-000196

Severity

CAT II

CCI(s)

CCI-000044 - Enforce the organization-defined limit of consecutive invalid logon attempts by a user during the organization-defined time period.

Weight

Fix Recommendation

Navigate to and open:

/etc/security/faillock.conf

Add or update the following lines:

dir = /var/log/faillock

Note: On vCenter appliances, the equivalent file must be edited under "/etc/applmgmt/appliance", if one exists, for the changes to persist after a reboot.

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At the command line, run the following command to verify account locking persists lockouts between system reboots:

# grep '^dir' /etc/security/faillock.conf

Example result:

dir = /var/log/faillock

If the "dir" option is set to "/var/run/faillock", this is a finding.
If the "dir" option is not set to a persistent documented faillock directory, is missing or commented out, this is a finding.

Note: If faillock.conf is not used to configure pam_faillock.so then these options may be specified on the faillock lines in the system-auth and system-account files.

Vulnerability Number

V-258862

Documentable

False

Rule Version

PHTN-40-000196

Severity Override Guidance

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Target Key

5569