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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

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.

ID
SV-254038r844147_rule
Version
JUEX-RT-000660
Severity
Low
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A 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