CKP-MGT-016LowCheck Point

Gaia boot loader has no password

Base severity

Low

Area

System and Metadata

Platform

Check Point

Evidence level

Fact1.00

Benchmark reference

Reads the export, not the device

ConfigProof reads a configuration export. This control is evaluated against the objects in that file, and it reports what the file says. It does not connect to the device and sees no traffic, so a finding here describes the configuration, not what the firewall is doing right now.

Why it matters

Anyone at the console can boot the box into maintenance mode and change the admin password without one.

How to fix it

Web interface

The steps below are written for the web interface. A finding raised on your own export carries the same steps with your object names filled in.

In clish, run set grub-password and enter a password kept with the break-glass credentials.
Run save config in clish, or the change is lost at the next reboot.

Check Point mgmt_cli and Gaia clish

set grub-passwordsave config

An example. Values in angle brackets are yours to supply; a finding on your own export fills in the names it read. Nothing here installs a policy. Publish, review, then install the policy on your gateways yourself; Gaia changes need save config.

Read it back

show configuration grub-password

Before you type it3

Written from the Check Point Management API reference and Gaia clish syntax, not yet run on a device. Read each line before typing it.
Type in clish on each Gaia gateway or cluster member.
The command prompts for the password; it is never written on the command line.

How to confirm the fix

Confirm the boot menu asks for the password.

Limits

No limitation is recorded for this control beyond the one that applies to all of them: it reads a configuration export.

Compliance references

No benchmark recommendation is mapped to this control in this version.

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