V-283934

Discussion

If the application allows the user to consecutively reuse extensive portions of passwords, this increases the chances of password compromise by increasing the window of opportunity for attempts at guessing and brute-force attacks. The number of changed characters refers to the number of changes required with respect to the total number of positions in the current password. In other words, characters may be the same within the two passwords; however, the positions of the like characters must be different.

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Check the Fly Server Manager security configuration:
- Log on to Fly Server with an admin account.
- On the Management >> General Settings page, click the "Security Option" tab. 
- Verify the Change Password setting is set to "New password cannot have consecutively same 8 characters as previous password".

If this option is unchecked, this is a finding.