Arista MLS EOS 4.2x Router Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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The Arista perimeter router must be configured to block all outbound management traffic.
For in-band management, the management network must have its own subnet in order to enforce control and access boundaries provided by Layer 3 network nodes, such as routers and firewalls. Managemen...Rule Medium Severity -
The Arista 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 -
The MPLS router must be configured to use its loopback address as the source address for LDP peering sessions.
Using a loopback address as the source address offers a multitude of uses for security, access, management, and scalability of backbone routers. It is easier to construct appropriate ingress filter...Rule Low Severity -
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.
Packet loss can occur when an IGP adjacency is established and the router begins forwarding packets using the new adjacency before the LDP label exchange completes between the peers on that link. P...Rule Low Severity -
The PE router must be configured to have each Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) instance bound to the appropriate physical or logical interfaces to maintain traffic separation between all MPLS L3VPNs.
The primary security model for an MPLS L3VPN infrastructure is traffic separation. The service provider must guarantee the customer that traffic from one VPN does not leak into another VPN or into ...Rule High Severity -
The PE router must be configured to have each VRF with the appropriate Route Distinguisher (RD).
An RD provides uniqueness to the customer address spaces within the MPLS L3VPN infrastructure. The concept of the VPN-IPv4 and VPN-IPv6 address families consists of the RD prepended before the IP a...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000018-RTR-000002
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The Arista BGP router must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements for any Bogon prefixes.
Accepting route advertisements for bogon prefixes can result in the local autonomous system (AS) becoming a transit for malicious traffic as it will in turn advertise these prefixes to neighbor aut...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000018-RTR-000003
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The Arista BGP router must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements for any prefixes belonging to the local autonomous system (AS).
Accepting route advertisements belonging to the local AS can result in traffic looping or being black holed, or at a minimum using a non-optimized path.Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000018-RTR-000004
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The Arista BGP router must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements from a customer edge (CE) router for prefixes that are not allocated to that customer.
As a best practice, a service provider should only accept customer prefixes that have been assigned to that customer and any peering autonomous systems. A multi-homed customer with BGP speaking rou...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000018-RTR-000005
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The Arista BGP router must be configured to reject outbound route advertisements for any prefixes belonging to the IP core.
Outbound route advertisements belonging to the core can result in traffic either looping or being black holed, or at a minimum, using a non-optimized path.Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000018-RTR-000006
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The Arista BGP router must be configured to reject route advertisements from BGP peers that do not list their autonomous system (AS) number as the first AS in the AS_PATH attribute.
Verifying the path a route has traversed will ensure the IP core is not used as a transit network for unauthorized or possibly even internet traffic. All autonomous system boundary routers (ASBRs) ...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-NET-000018-RTR-000007
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SRG-NET-000018-RTR-000008
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The Arista Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to filter source-active multicast advertisements to external MSDP peers to avoid global visibility of local-only multicast sources and groups.
To avoid global visibility of local information, there are a number of source-group (S, G) states in a PIM-SM domain that must not be leaked to another domain, such as multicast sources with privat...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-NET-000018-RTR-000009
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