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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-000512-RTR-000012

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  • The Arista 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

    Group
  • The Arista 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

    Group
  • The Arista perimeter 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
  • SRG-NET-000205-RTR-000015

    Group
  • The perimeter router must be configured to block all packets with any IP options.

    Packets with IP options are not fast routered and henceforth must be punted to the router processor. Hackers who initiate denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on routers commonly send large streams of p...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000205-RTR-000016

    Group
  • The PE router must be configured to ignore or block all packets with any IP options.

    Packets with IP options are not fast routered and therefore must be punted to the router processor. Hackers who initiate denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on routers commonly send large streams of pa...
    Rule Medium Severity

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