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II - Mission Support Classified

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-NET-000018-RTR-000002

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

    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 aut...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000018-RTR-000003

    Group
  • The Arista BGP router must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements for any prefixes belonging to the local autonomous system (AS).

    Accepting route advertisements belonging to the local AS can result in traffic looping or being black holed, or at a minimum using a non-optimized path.
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000018-RTR-000004

    Group
  • The Arista BGP router must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements from a customer edge (CE) router for prefixes that are not allocated to that customer.

    As a best practice, a service provider should only accept customer prefixes that have been assigned to that customer and any peering autonomous systems. A multi-homed customer with BGP speaking rou...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000018-RTR-000005

    Group
  • The Arista BGP router must be configured to reject outbound route advertisements for any prefixes that do not belong to any customers or the local autonomous system (AS).

    Advertisement of routes by an autonomous system for networks that do not belong to any of its customers pulls traffic away from the authorized network. This causes a denial of service (DoS) on the ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000018-RTR-000006

    Group
  • The Arista BGP router must be configured to reject route advertisements from BGP peers that do not list their autonomous system (AS) number as the first AS in the AS_PATH attribute.

    Verifying the path a route has traversed will ensure the IP core is not used as a transit network for unauthorized or possibly even internet traffic. All autonomous system boundary routers (ASBRs) ...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000018-RTR-000007

    Group
  • The Arista Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to filter received source-active multicast advertisements for any undesirable multicast groups and sources.

    The interoperability of BGP extensions for interdomain multicast routing and MSDP enables seamless connectivity of multicast domains between autonomous systems. MP-BGP advertises the unicast prefix...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000018-RTR-000008

    Group
  • The Arista Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to filter source-active multicast advertisements to external MSDP peers to avoid global visibility of local-only multicast sources and groups.

    To avoid global visibility of local information, there are a number of source-group (S, G) states in a PIM-SM domain that must not be leaked to another domain, such as multicast sources with privat...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000018-RTR-000009

    Group
  • The Arista MSDP router must be configured to limit the amount of source-active messages it accepts on per-peer basis.

    To reduce any risk of a denial-of-service (DoS) attack from a rogue or misconfigured MSDP router, the router must be configured to limit the number of source-active messages it accepts from each peer.
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000018-RTR-000010

    Group
  • The Arista BGP router must be configured to reject route advertisements from CE routers with an originating AS in the AS_PATH attribute that does not belong to that customer.

    Verifying the path a route has traversed will ensure that the local AS is not used as a transit network for unauthorized traffic. To ensure that the local AS does not carry any prefixes that do not...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000019-RTR-000002

    Group
  • The Arista perimeter router must be configured to enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information between interconnected networks in accordance with applicable policy.

    Information flow control regulates authorized information to travel within a network and between interconnected networks. Controlling the flow of network traffic is critical so it does not introduc...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000019-RTR-000003

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  • The Arista multicast router must be configured to disable Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) on all interfaces that are not required to support multicast routing.

    If multicast traffic is forwarded beyond the intended boundary, it is possible that it can be intercepted by unauthorized or unintended personnel. Limiting where, within the network, a given multic...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000019-RTR-000004

    Group
  • The Arista multicast router must be configured to bind a Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) neighbor filter to interfaces that have PIM enabled.

    PIM is a routing protocol used to build multicast distribution trees for forwarding multicast traffic across the network infrastructure. PIM traffic must be limited to only known PIM neighbors by c...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000019-RTR-000005

    Group
  • The Arista multicast edge router must be configured to establish boundaries for administratively scoped multicast traffic.

    If multicast traffic is forwarded beyond the intended boundary, it is possible that it can be intercepted by unauthorized or unintended personnel. Administrative scoped multicast addresses are loc...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000019-RTR-000007

    Group
  • The Arista router must be configured to have all inactive interfaces disabled.

    An inactive interface is rarely monitored or controlled and may expose a network to an undetected attack on that interface. Unauthorized personnel with access to the communication facility could ga...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000019-RTR-000008

    Group
  • The Arista perimeter router must be configured to protect an enclave connected to an alternate gateway by using an inbound filter that only permits packets with destination addresses within the sites address space.

    Enclaves with alternate gateway connections must take additional steps to ensure there is no compromise on the enclave network or NIPRNet. Without verifying the destination address of traffic comin...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-NET-000019-RTR-000009

    Group
  • The Arista perimeter router must be configured to not be a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) peer to an alternate gateway service provider.

    ISPs use BGP to share route information with other autonomous systems (i.e., other ISPs and corporate networks). If the perimeter router was configured to BGP peer with an ISP, NIPRNet routes could...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-NET-000019-RTR-000010

    Group
  • The Arista perimeter router must be configured to not redistribute static routes to an alternate gateway service provider into BGP or an IGP peering with the NIPRNet or to other autonomous systems.

    If the static routes to the alternate gateway are being redistributed into an Exterior Gateway Protocol or Interior Gateway Protocol to a NIPRNet gateway, this could make traffic on NIPRNet flow to...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000019-RTR-000011

    Group
  • The out-of-band management (OOBM) Arista gateway router must be configured to have separate IGP instances for the managed network and management network.

    If the gateway router is not a dedicated device for the OOBM network, implementation of several safeguards for containment of management and production traffic boundaries must occur. Since the mana...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000019-RTR-000012

    Group
  • The out-of-band management (OOBM) Arista gateway router must be configured to not redistribute routes between the management network routing domain and the managed network routing domain.

    If the gateway router is not a dedicated device for the OOBM network, several safeguards must be implemented for containment of management and production traffic boundaries; otherwise, it is possib...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000019-RTR-000013

    Group
  • The multicast Rendezvous Point (RP) Arista router must be configured to filter Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Register and Join messages received from the Designated Router (DR) for any undesirable multicast groups and sources.

    Real-time multicast traffic can entail multiple large flows of data. An attacker can flood a network segment with multicast packets, over-using the available bandwidth and thereby creating a denial...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000076-RTR-000001

    Group
  • The Arista router must be configured to produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred.

    Without establishing where events occurred, it is impossible to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. In order to compile an accurate risk assessment ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000131-RTR-000035

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  • The Arista router must be configured to have all non-essential capabilities disabled.

    A compromised router introduces risk to the entire network infrastructure, as well as data resources that are accessible via the network. The perimeter defense has no oversight or control of attack...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000168-RTR-000077

    Group
  • The Arista router must be configured to authenticate all routing protocol messages using NIST-validated FIPS 198-1 message authentication code algorithm.

    A rogue router could send a fictitious routing update to convince a site's perimeter router to send traffic to an incorrect or even a rogue destination. This diverted traffic could be analyzed to l...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000193-RTR-000001

    Group
  • The MPLS router with RSVP-TE enabled must be configured with message pacing or refresh reduction to adjust maximum number of RSVP messages to an output queue based on the link speed and input queue size of adjacent core routers.

    RSVP-TE can be used to perform constraint-based routing when building LSP tunnels within the network core that will support QoS and traffic engineering requirements. RSVP-TE is also used to enable ...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000193-RTR-000112

    Group
  • The PE router must be configured to enforce a Quality-of-Service (QoS) policy to limit the effects of packet flooding denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.

    DoS is a condition when a resource is not available for legitimate users. Packet flooding distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are referred to as volumetric attacks and have the objective o...
    Rule Medium Severity

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