Dell OS10 Switch Router Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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SRG-NET-000362-RTR-000117
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The Dell OS10 BGP router must be configured to use the maximum prefixes feature to protect against route table flooding and prefix deaggregation attacks.
The effects of prefix deaggregation can degrade router performance due to the size of routing tables and also result in black-holing legitimate traffic. Initiated by an attacker or a misconfigured ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000362-RTR-000118
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The Dell OS10 BGP router must be configured to limit the prefix size on any inbound route advertisement to /24 or the least significant prefixes issued to the customer.
The effects of prefix deaggregation can degrade router performance due to the size of routing tables and also result in black-holing legitimate traffic. Initiated by an attacker or a misconfigured ...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-NET-000362-RTR-000121
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SRG-NET-000364-RTR-000114
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SRG-NET-000364-RTR-000115
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SRG-NET-000512-RTR-000001
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The Dell OS10 BGP router must be configured to use its loopback address as the source address for iBGP peering sessions.
Using a loopback address as the source address offers a multitude of uses for security, access, management, and scalability of the BGP routers. It is easier to construct appropriate ingress filters...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-NET-000512-RTR-000012
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The Dell OS10 Router must be configured to advertise a hop limit of at least 32 in Router Advertisement messages for IPv6 stateless auto-configuration deployments.
The Neighbor Discovery protocol allows a hop limit value to be advertised by routers in a Router Advertisement message being used by hosts instead of the standardized default value. If a very small...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-NET-000512-RTR-000013
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The Dell OS10 Router must not be configured to use IPv6 Site Local Unicast addresses.
As currently defined, site local addresses are ambiguous and can be present in multiple sites. The address itself does not contain any indication of the site to which it belongs. The use of site-lo...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000512-RTR-000014
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SRG-NET-000131-RTR-000083
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The Dell OS10 Router must not be configured to have any feature enabled that calls home to the vendor.
Call home services will routinely send data such as configuration and diagnostic information to the vendor for routine or emergency analysis and troubleshooting. There is a risk that transmission o...Rule Medium Severity -
The Dell OS10 BGP router must be configured to reject outbound route advertisements for any prefixes that do not belong to any customers or the local autonomous system (AS).
Advertisement of routes by an autonomous system for networks that do not belong to any of its customers pulls traffic away from the authorized network. This causes a denial of service (DoS) on the ...Rule Medium Severity -
The Dell OS10 multicast router must be configured to bind a Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) neighbor filter to interfaces that have PIM enabled.
PIM is a routing protocol used to build multicast distribution trees for forwarding multicast traffic across the network infrastructure. PIM traffic must be limited to only known PIM neighbors by c...Rule Medium Severity -
The Dell OS10 Router must be configured to have all inactive interfaces disabled.
An inactive interface is rarely monitored or controlled and may expose a network to an undetected attack on that interface. Unauthorized personnel with access to the communication facility could ga...Rule Low Severity -
The perimeter router must be configured to not be a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) peer to an alternate gateway service provider.
ISPs use BGP to share route information with other autonomous systems (i.e., other ISPs and corporate networks). If the perimeter router was configured to BGP peer with an ISP, NIPRnet routes could...Rule High Severity -
The Dell OS10 Router must be configured to log all packets that have been dropped.
Auditing and logging are key components of any security architecture. It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done or attempted to be done, and by whom, to compile an accurate ...Rule Low Severity -
The Dell OS10 Router must be configured to use encryption for routing protocol authentication.
A rogue router could send a fictitious routing update to convince a site's perimeter router to send traffic to an incorrect or even a rogue destination. This diverted traffic could be analyzed to l...Rule Medium Severity -
The Dell OS10 Router must be configured to authenticate all routing protocol messages using NIST-validated FIPS 198-1 message authentication code algorithm.
A rogue router could send a fictitious routing update to convince a site's perimeter router to send traffic to an incorrect or even a rogue destination. This diverted traffic could be analyzed to l...Rule Medium Severity -
The PE router must be configured to enforce a Quality-of-Service (QoS) policy to limit the effects of packet flooding denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
DoS is a condition when a resource is not available for legitimate users. Packet flooding distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are referred to as volumetric attacks and have the objective o...Rule Medium Severity -
The Dell OS10 Router must be configured to drop all fragmented Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packets destined to itself.
Fragmented ICMP packets can be generated by hackers for denial-of-service (DoS) attacks such as Ping O' Death and Teardrop. It is imperative that all fragmented ICMP packets are dropped.Rule Medium Severity -
The Dell OS10 Router must be configured to implement message authentication for all control plane protocols.
A rogue router could send a fictitious routing update to convince a site's perimeter router to send traffic to an incorrect or even a rogue destination. This diverted traffic could be analyzed to l...Rule Medium Severity -
The Dell OS10 Router must be configured to use keys with a duration not exceeding 180 days for authenticating routing protocol messages.
If the keys used for routing protocol authentication are guessed, the malicious user could create havoc within the network by advertising incorrect routes and redirecting traffic. Some routing prot...Rule Medium Severity -
The Dell OS10 Router must not be configured to have any zero-touch deployment feature enabled when connected to an operational network.
Network devices that are configured via a zero-touch deployment or auto-loading feature can have their startup configuration or image pushed to the device for installation via TFTP or Remote Copy (...Rule Medium Severity -
The Dell OS10 Router must be configured to have Gratuitous ARP disabled on all external interfaces.
A gratuitous ARP is an ARP broadcast in which the source and destination MAC addresses are the same. It is used to inform the network about a host IP address. A spoofed gratuitous ARP message can c...Rule Medium Severity -
The Dell OS10 Router must be configured to have IP directed broadcast disabled on all interfaces.
An IP directed broadcast is a datagram sent to the broadcast address of a subnet that is not directly attached to the sending machine. The directed broadcast is routed through the network as a unic...Rule Low Severity -
The Dell OS10 multicast Rendezvous Point (RP) must be configured to rate limit the number of Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Register messages.
When a new source starts transmitting in a PIM Sparse Mode network, the DR will encapsulate the multicast packets into register messages and forward them to the RP using unicast. This process can b...Rule Medium Severity -
The Dell OS10 multicast Designated Router (DR) must be configured to filter the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Report messages to allow hosts to join only multicast groups that have been approved by the organization.
Real-time multicast traffic can entail multiple large flows of data. Large unicast flows tend to be fairly isolated (i.e., someone doing a file download here or there), whereas multicast can have b...Rule Low Severity -
The Dell OS10 multicast Designated Router (DR) must be configured to filter the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Report messages to allow hosts to join a multicast group only from sources that have been approved by the organization.
Real-time multicast traffic can entail multiple large flows of data. Large unicast flows tend to be fairly isolated (i.e., someone doing a file download here or there), whereas multicast can have b...Rule Medium Severity -
The Dell OS10 Router must be configured to suppress Router Advertisements on all external IPv6-enabled interfaces.
Many of the known attacks in stateless autoconfiguration are defined in RFC 3756 were present in IPv4 ARP attacks. To mitigate these vulnerabilities, links that have no hosts connected such as the ...Rule Medium Severity
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