V-288190

Discussion

Terminating an idle session within a short time period reduces the window of opportunity for unauthorized personnel to take control of a management session enabled on the console or console port that has been left unattended. In addition, quickly terminating an idle session will also free up resources committed by the managed network element. Terminating network connections associated with communications sessions includes, for example, de-allocating associated TCP/IP address/port pairs at the operating system level, or de-allocating networking assignments at the application level if multiple application sessions are using a single, operating system level network connection. This does not mean that the application terminates all sessions or network access; it only ends the inactive session and releases the resources associated with that session.

Check Content

Review the application documentation and deployed configuration to determine whether the application terminates all network connections associated with a communications session at the end of the session, or no more than 15 minutes of inactivity.

If the application does not terminate all network connections associated with a communications session at the end of the session, or no more than 15 minutes of inactivity, this is a finding.