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Juniper Router RTR Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The Juniper perimeter router must be configured to suppress Router Advertisements on all external IPv6-enabled interfaces.

    <VulnDiscussion>Many of the known attacks in stateless autoconfiguration are defined in RFC 3756 were present in IPv4 ARP attacks. To mitigat...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • The Juniper BGP router must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements from a customer edge (CE) Juniper router for prefixes that are not allocated to that customer.

    <VulnDiscussion>As a best practice, a service provider should only accept customer prefixes that have been assigned to that customer and any ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000018-RTR-000005

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Juniper router must be configured to only permit management traffic that ingresses and egresses the OOBM interface.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The OOBM access switch will connect to the management interface of the managed network elements. The management interface can...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000205-RTR-000013

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Juniper router providing connectivity to the NOC must be configured to forward all in-band management traffic via an IPsec tunnel.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When the production network is managed in-band, the management network could be housed at a NOC that is located remotely at s...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000362-RTR-000124

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Juniper BGP router must be configured to enable the Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM).

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;GTSM is designed to protect a router's IP-based control plane from DoS attacks. Many attacks focused on CPU load and line-car...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000230-RTR-000002

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Juniper BGP router must be configured to use a unique key for each autonomous system (AS) that it peers with.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the same keys are used between eBGP neighbors, the chance of a hacker compromising any of the BGP sessions increases. It i...
    Rule Medium Severity

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