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Arista MLS EOS 4.2x Router Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-NET-000364-RTR-000116

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  • The Arista Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to only accept MSDP packets from known MSDP peers.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;MSDP peering with customer network routers presents additional risks to the DISN Core, whether from a rogue or misconfigured ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000512-RTR-000001

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    Group
  • The Arista BGP router must be configured to use its loopback address as the source address for iBGP peering sessions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Using a loopback address as the source address offers a multitude of uses for security, access, management, and scalability o...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000512-RTR-000002

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    Group
  • The MPLS router must be configured to use its loopback address as the source address for LDP peering sessions.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Using a loopback address as the source address offers a multitude of uses for security, access, management, and scalability o...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000512-RTR-000003

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    Group
  • The MPLS router must be configured to synchronize IGP and LDP to minimize packet loss when an IGP adjacency is established prior to LDP peers completing label exchange.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Packet loss can occur when an IGP adjacency is established and the router begins forwarding packets using the new adjacency b...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000512-RTR-000004

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    Group
  • The MPLS router must be configured to have TTL propagation disabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The head end of the label-routered path (LSP), the label edge router (LER) will decrement the IP packet's time-to-live (TTL) ...
    Rule Medium Severity

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