The HYCU virtual appliance must limit the number of concurrent sessions to an organization-defined number for each administrator account and/or administrator account type.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
Device management includes the ability to control the number of administrators and management sessions that manage a device. Limiting the number of allowed administrators and sessions per administrator based on account type, role, or access type is helpful in limiting risks related to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. This requirement addresses concurrent sessions for administrative accounts and does not address concurrent sessions by a single administrator via multiple administrative accounts. The maximum number of concurrent sessions should be defined based upon mission needs and the operational environment for each system. At a minimum, limits must be set for SSH, HTTPS, account of last resort, and root account sessions.
- ID
- SV-268219r1038638_rule
- Version
- HYCU-ND-000010
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
The Web UI will only always allow one user session at a time.
For CLI, configure the operating system to limit the max number of concurrent sessions to 1 by adding the following line to "/etc/security/limits.conf":
hycu hard maxlogins 1