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The Juniper Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to only accept MSDP packets from known MSDP peers.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

<VulnDiscussion>MSDP peering with customer network routers presents additional risks to the DISN Core, whether from a rogue or misconfigured MSDP-enabled router. To guard against an attack from malicious MSDP traffic, the receive path or interface filter for all MSDP-enabled RP routers must be configured to only accept MSDP packets from known MSDP peers.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>

ID
SV-217093r604135_rule
Severity
Medium
References
Updated



Remediation - Manual Procedure

Configure the receive path filter to only accept MSDP packets from known MSDP peers as shown in the following example:

[edit firewall family inet filter PROTECT_RE]
set term MSDP_PEERS from protocol tcp port msdp
set term MSDP_PEERS from source-address 0.0.0.0/0
set term MSDP_PEERS from source-address 1.1.1.1/32 except