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The Juniper BGP router must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements for any Bogon prefixes.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

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 autonomous systems.

ID
SV-217053r604135_rule
Version
JUNI-RT-000480
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Configure the router to reject inbound route advertisements for any Bogon prefixes.

Configure a prefix list containing the current Bogon prefixes as shown below.

[edit policy-options]
set prefix-list BOGON_PREFIXES 0.0.0.0/8