The DBMS must support organizational requirements to enforce password complexity by the number of lower-case characters used.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>Password complexity or strength is a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. Password complexity is one factor of several that determine how long it takes to crack a password. The more complex the password is, the greater the number of possible combinations that need to be tested before the password is compromised. Use of a complex password helps to increase the time and resources required to compromise the password. Note that user authentication and account management must be done via an enterprise-wide mechanism whenever possible. Examples of enterprise-level authentication/access mechanisms include, but are not limited to, Active Directory and LDAP This requirement applies to cases where it is necessary to have accounts directly managed by Oracle.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-238464r879601_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
If all user accounts are authenticated by the OS or an enterprise-level authentication/access mechanism, and not by Oracle, no fix to the DBMS is required.
If any user accounts are managed by Oracle: Develop, test and implement a password verification function that enforces DoD requirements.
(Oracle supplies a sample function called verify_function_11G, in the script file
<oracle_home>/RDBMS/ADMIN/utlpwdmg.sql. This can be used as the starting point for a customized function.)