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Linux: minlen in pam_pwquality.so

🗓️ 11 Jun 2020 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2020 Greenbone Networks GmbHType 
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The pam_pwquality module in Linux enforces minimum password length for increased password strength

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if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.150267");
  script_version("2022-08-31T10:10:28+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2022-08-31 10:10:28 +0000 (Wed, 31 Aug 2022)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2020-06-11 13:09:53 +0000 (Thu, 11 Jun 2020)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"0.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:N");
  script_tag(name:"qod", value:"97");

  script_name("Linux: minlen in pam_pwquality.so");

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2020 Greenbone Networks GmbH");
  script_family("Policy");
  script_dependencies("compliance_tests.nasl", "read_etc_pamd.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("Compliance/Launch");

  script_add_preference(name:"Value", type:"entry", value:"14", id:1);

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://linux.die.net/man/8/pam_pwquality");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The pam_pwquality module can be plugged into the password stack
of a given service to provide some plug-in strength-checking for passwords. The code was originally
based on pam_cracklib module and the module is backwards compatible with its options.

  - minlen: The minimum acceptable size for the new password (plus one if credits are not disabled
which is the default). In addition to the number of characters in the new password, credit (of +1
in length) is given for each different kind of character (other, upper, lower and digit). The
default for this parameter is 9. Note that there is a pair of length limits also in Cracklib, which
is used for dictionary checking, a 'way too short' limit of 4 which is hard coded in and a build
time defined limit (6) that will be checked without reference to minlen.");

  exit(0);
}

include("policy_functions.inc");

cmd = "grep minlen /etc/pam.d/system-auth /etc/pam.d/password-auth /etc/pam.d/common-password";
title = "Minimum acceptable size for the new password";
solution = "Set minlen=VALUE in /etc/pam.d/common-password, /etc/pam.d/password-auth or /etc/pam.d/system-auth";
test_type = "SSH_Cmd";
default = script_get_preference("Value", id:1);

if(get_kb_item("Policy/linux/etc/pam.d/ERROR")){
  value = "Error";
  compliant = "incomplete";
  comment = "No SSH connection to host possible.";
}else{
  files = make_list("/etc/pam.d/system-auth", "/etc/pam.d/password-auth", "/etc/pam.d/common-password");
  foreach file (files){
    if(get_kb_item("Policy/linux/" + file + "/content/ERROR"))
      continue;

    content = get_kb_item("Policy/linux/" + file + "/content");
    password_required_pam_pwquality = egrep(string:content, pattern:"pam_pwquality.so");
    foreach line (split(password_required_pam_pwquality, keep:FALSE)){
      minclass_match = eregmatch(string:line, pattern:"minlen=([0-9]+)");
      if(minclass_match)
        value = minclass_match[1];
    }
  }

  if(!value){
    value = "None";
    compliant = "no";
    comment = "Could not find minlen option";
  }else{
    compliant = policy_setting_min_match(value:int(value), set_point:int(default));
  }
}

policy_reporting(result:value, default:default, compliant:compliant, fixtext:solution,
  type:test_type, test:cmd, info:comment);
policy_set_kbs(type:test_type, cmd:cmd, default:default, solution:solution, title:title,
  value:value, compliant:compliant);

exit(0);

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