The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to prohibit or restrict the use of unnecessary or prohibited functions, ports, protocols, and/or services, including those defined in the PPSM CAL and vulnerability assessments.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>To prevent unauthorized connection of devices, unauthorized transfer of information, or unauthorized tunneling (i.e., embedding of data types within data types), organizations must disable or restrict unused or unnecessary physical and logical ports/protocols on information systems. ALGs are capable of providing a wide variety of functions and services. Some of the functions and services provided by default may not be necessary to support essential organizational operations. DOD continually assesses the ports, protocols, and services that can be used for network communications. Some ports, protocols or services have known exploits or security weaknesses. Network traffic using these ports, protocols, and services must be prohibited or restricted in accordance with DOD policy. The ALG is a key network element for preventing these noncompliant ports, protocols, and services from causing harm to DOD information systems. The network ALG must be configured to prevent or restrict the use of prohibited ports, protocols, and services throughout the network by filtering the network traffic and disallowing or redirecting traffic as necessary. Default and updated policy filters from the vendors will disallow older version of protocols and applications and will address most known nonsecure ports, protocols, and/or services. However, sources for further policy filters are the IAVMs and the PPSM requirements. Satisfies: SRG-NET-000132-ALG-000087, SRG-NET-000131-ALG-000085</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-266150r1024377_rule
- Severity
- High
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Check the PPSM CAL and the site's System Security Plan/documentation for a list of prohibited ports, protocols, and services.
From the BIG-IP GUI:
1. Local Traffic.
2. Virtual Servers.
3. For any virtual server(s) listening on all unnecessary and/or nonsecure functions, ports, protocols, and/or services, check the box next to the virtual server and click "Delete".