Details

Password complexity, or strength, is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks.

Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password.

Application servers either provide a local user store, or they integrate with enterprise user stores like LDAP. When the application server provides the user store and enforces authentication, the application server must enforce the organization’s password complexity requirements that include the requirement to use a specific number of special characters.

Solution

1. Access AC
2. From ‘Domain Structure’, select ‘Security Realms’
3. Select realm to configure (default is ‘myrealm’)
4. Select ‘Providers’ tab -> ‘Password Validation’ subtab
5. Select ‘SystemPasswordValidator’
6. Select ‘Configuration’ tab -> ‘Provider Specific’ subtab
7. Utilize ‘Change Center’ to create a new change session
8. Set ‘Minimum Number of Non-Alphanumeric Characters’ field value to ‘1’ or higher. Click ‘Save’

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Oracle_WebLogic_Server_12c_V2R1_STIG.zip

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Identification and Authentication.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.

References

• 800-53|IA-5(1)(a)
• CAT|II
• CCI|CCI-001619
• Rule-ID|SV-235970r628688_rule
• STIG-ID|WBLC-05-000165
• STIG-Legacy|SV-70543
• STIG-Legacy|V-56289
• Vuln-ID|V-235970

Source

• Tenable.com/audits