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XCCDF
F5 BIG-IP TMOS VPN Security Technical Implementation Guide
SRG-NET-000337-VPN-001300
SRG-NET-000337-VPN-001300
An XCCDF Group - A logical subset of the XCCDF Benchmark
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SRG-NET-000337-VPN-001300
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The F5 BIG-IP appliance IPsec VPN must renegotiate the IKE Phase 2 security association after eight hours or less.
Medium Severity
<VulnDiscussion>When a VPN gateway creates an IPsec Security Association (SA), resources must be allocated to maintain the SA. These resources are wasted during periods of IPsec endpoint inactivity, which could result in the gateway’s inability to create new SAs for other endpoints, thereby preventing new sessions from connecting. The Internet Key Exchange (IKE) idle timeout may also be set to allow SAs associated with inactive endpoints to be deleted before the SA lifetime has expired, although this setting is not recommended at this time. The value of one hour or less is a common best practice.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>