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1.287 RHEL-10-600700

Information

RHEL 10 must be configured to use a sufficient number of hashing rounds for the shadow password suite.

GROUP ID: V-281218RULE ID: SV-281218r1166606

Passwords must be protected at all times, and encryption is the standard method for protecting passwords. If passwords are not encrypted, they can be plainly read (i.e., clear text) and easily compromised. Passwords that are encrypted with a weak algorithm are no more protected than if they are kept in plain text.

Using more hashing rounds makes password cracking attacks more difficult.

Satisfies: SRG-OS-000073-GPOS-00041, SRG-OS-000120-GPOS-00061

Solution

Configure RHEL 10 to use a sufficient number of hashing rounds for shadow password suite.

Add or modify the following line in "/etc/pam.d/system-auth" and set "rounds" to 100000:

password sufficient pam_unix.so sha512 rounds=100000

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/26403

Item Details

Category: IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

References: 800-53|IA-7, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000803, CCI|CCI-004062, Rule-ID|SV-281218r1166606_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-10-600700, Vuln-ID|V-281218

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: c461cfac36e7639208a2847193d74b7181237c49c1a515456ded68f275134eee