id: password-warn-age info: name: Ensure Password Expiration Warning Days is Configured author: Th3l0newolf severity: medium description: | The PASS_WARN_AGE setting in /etc/login.defs defines the number of days before password expiration that users are warned.To comply with CIS Ubuntu Linux Benchmark, this value should be set to 7 to provide sufficient notice for users to change passwords. remediation: | Edit /etc/login.defs and ensure the line is set to: PASS_WARN_AGE 7.Verify the change with: grep -Pi -- '^\h*PASS_WARN_AGE\h+\d+\b' /etc/login.defs reference: - https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/ubuntu_linux metadata: verified: true tags: cis,local,cisecurity,audit,linux,ubuntu,password self-contained: true code: - engine: - bash args: - "-c" - | WARN_AGE_LINE=$(grep -Pi -- '^\h*PASS_WARN_AGE\h+\d+\b' /etc/login.defs | head -n1) if [ -n "$WARN_AGE_LINE" ]; then VALUE=$(echo "$WARN_AGE_LINE" | awk '{print $2}') if [ "$VALUE" -eq 7 ]; then echo "[password-warn-age-check:Policy-Pass] [PASS_WARN_AGE is $VALUE (valid)] [CIS_PASS]" else echo "[password-warn-age-check:Policy-Fail] [PASS_WARN_AGE is $VALUE (invalid)] [CIS_FAIL]" fi else echo "[password-warn-age-check:Policy-Fail] [PASS_WARN_AGE not set or malformed] [CIS_FAIL]" fi matchers: - type: word name: policy-pass words: - "Policy-Pass" - type: word name: policy-fail words: - "Policy-Fail" # digest: 4a0a00473045022015f03c2bbecc12ef5fd92faa8928633477ade84d8fcd8980daad1984cba9ce56022100bc5d09e37c69098da51ad12d5fe668c86785f76d2b1e1b19515f3018a73f9e8a:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950