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The Juniper BGP router must be configured to limit the prefix size on any inbound route advertisement to /24 or the least significant prefixes issued to the customer.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

<VulnDiscussion>The effects of prefix deaggregation can degrade router performance due to the size of routing tables and also result in black-holing legitimate traffic. Initiated by an attacker or a misconfigured router, prefix deaggregation occurs when the announcement of a large prefix is fragmented into a collection of smaller prefix announcements.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>

ID
SV-254038r844147_rule
Severity
Low
References
Updated



Remediation - Manual Procedure

Configure all eBGP routers to use the prefix limit feature to protect against route table flooding and prefix deaggregation attacks.

set policy-options policy-statement <statement name> term 1 from route-filter 0.0.0.0/0 prefix-length-range /25-/32
set policy-options policy-statement <statement name> term 1 then reject

set protocols bgp group <group name> type external