SV-278038r1180820: Windows Server 2025 minimum password age must be configured to at least one day. | Microsoft Windows Server 2025 STIG SCAP Benchmark

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Assessment Title

Rule Text

Windows Server 2025 minimum password age must be configured to at least one day.

Description

Discussion Text

Permitting passwords to be changed in immediate succession within the same day allows users to cycle passwords through their history database. This enables users to effectively negate the purpose of mandating periodic password changes.

How this relates to the STIG checklist: STIG vs SCAP benchmark.

IA Controls

NIST SP 800-53

Not mappedCCI-004066

References

DPMS Target Microsoft Windows Server 2025 DISA DPMS Target Microsoft Windows Server 2025 5719

SCC Automation Reference

The reconstructed evaluation script behind this rule's OVAL check(s) — every module a compound check combines, with this rule's own concrete values and DISA's SCC tool's real per-module mechanism curated from static teardown of SCC releases.

# Windows PowerShell
# Reconstructed from oval:mil.disa.stig.windows2025:def:278038
# Windows Server 2025 minimum password age must be configured to at least one day.
# Per-module read mechanism curated from static teardown of DISA's SCC tool
# (SCAP Compliance Checker) -- see the SCC Automation Reference above.

# Verifies 'Minimum Password Age' is set to at least '1' day
# passwordpolicy_object (passwordpolicy_test)
function test_1 {
  return (((net accounts | Select-String 'Minimum password age') -replace '[^0-9]','') -ge 86400)
}

if (test_1) {
  Write-Output "PASS"
} else {
  Write-Output "FAIL"
}

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Syntax-checked as valid PowerShell. Not executed here — running it for real needs the actual ms_windows_server_2025 target this check assesses.

# OVAL Definition: oval:mil.disa.stig.windows2025:def:278038
$passwordPolicy = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_LocalUser
if ($passwordPolicy -and ($passwordPolicy.PasswordRequired -eq 'True')) {
    $minPasswordAge = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_PasswordPolicy | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq 'Minimum password age'}
    if ($minPasswordAge -and [int]$minPasswordAge.MinimumPasswordAge -ge 86400) {
        Write-Output "PASS"; exit 0
    }
}
Write-Output "FAIL"; exit 1

Remediation

Configure the policy value for Computer Configuration >> Windows Settings >> Security Settings >> Account Policies >> Password Policy. Set "Minimum password age" to at least "1" day.