The NSX Manager must be configured to enforce the limit of three consecutive invalid logon attempts, after which time it must block any login attempt for 15 minutes.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
By limiting the number of failed login attempts, the risk of unauthorized system access via user password guessing, otherwise known as brute-forcing, is reduced.
- ID
- SV-265293r994102_rule
- Version
- NMGR-4X-000012
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
From an NSX Manager shell, run the following commands:
> set auth-policy api lockout-reset-period 900
> set auth-policy api lockout-period 900
> set auth-policy api max-auth-failures 3
> set auth-policy cli lockout-period 900
> set auth-policy cli max-auth-failures 3