Skip to content

I - Mission Critical Classified

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-NET-000019-RTR-000013

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

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Real-time multicast traffic can entail multiple large flows of data. An attacker can flood a network segment with multicast p...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000019-RTR-000014

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Juniper multicast Rendezvous Point (RP) router must be configured to filter Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Join messages received from the Designated Juniper router (DR) for any undesirable multicast groups.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Real-time multicast traffic can entail multiple large flows of data. An attacker can flood a network segment with multicast p...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000362-RTR-000121

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Juniper multicast Rendezvous Point (RP) must be configured to rate limit the number of Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Register messages.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;When a new source starts transmitting in a PIM Sparse Mode network, the DR will encapsulate the multicast packets into regist...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000364-RTR-000114

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Juniper multicast Designated Router (DR) must be configured to filter the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Report messages to allow hosts to join only multicast groups that have been approved by the organization.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Real-time multicast traffic can entail multiple large flows of data. Large unicast flows tend to be fairly isolated (i.e., so...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000364-RTR-000115

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Juniper multicast Designated Router (DR) must be configured to filter the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Report messages to allow hosts to join a multicast group only from sources that have been approved by the organization.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Real-time multicast traffic can entail multiple large flows of data. Large unicast flows tend to be fairly isolated (i.e., so...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000362-RTR-000122

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Juniper multicast Designated Router (DR) must be configured to limit the number of mroute states resulting from Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Host Membership Reports.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The current multicast paradigm can let any host join any multicast group at any time by sending an IGMP or MLD membership rep...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000362-RTR-000123

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Juniper multicast Designated Router (DR) must be configured to set the shortest-path tree (SPT) threshold to infinity to minimalize source-group (S, G) state within the multicast topology where Any Source Multicast (ASM) is deployed.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;ASM can have many sources for the same groups (many-to-many). For many receivers, the path via the RP may not be ideal compar...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000364-RTR-000116

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Juniper Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to only accept MSDP packets from known MSDP peers.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;MSDP peering with customer network routers presents additional risks to the DISN Core, whether from a rogue or misconfigured ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000343-RTR-000002

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Juniper Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to authenticate all received MSDP packets.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;MSDP peering with customer network routers presents additional risks to the core, whether from a rogue or misconfigured MSDP-...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000018-RTR-000007

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

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The interoperability of BGP extensions for interdomain multicast routing and MSDP enables seamless connectivity of multicast ...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000018-RTR-000008

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Juniper 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.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To avoid global visibility of local information, there are a number of source-group (S, G) states in a PIM-SM domain that mus...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000018-RTR-000009

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Juniper Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to limit the amount of source-active messages it accepts on per-peer basis.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To reduce any risk of a denial-of-service (DoS) attack from a rogue or misconfigured MSDP router, the router must be configur...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000512-RTR-000011

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Juniper Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to use its loopback address as the source address when originating MSDP traffic.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Using a loopback address as the source address offers a multitude of uses for security, access, management, and scalability o...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000512-RTR-000014

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Juniper perimeter router must be configured to suppress Router Advertisements on all external IPv6-enabled interfaces.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Many of the known attacks in stateless autoconfiguration are defined in RFC 3756 were present in IPv4 ARP attacks. To mitigat...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000512-RTR-000013

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Juniper router must not be configured to use IPv6 Site Local Unicast addresses.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;As currently defined, site local addresses are ambiguous and can be present in multiple sites. The address itself does not co...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000364-RTR-000201

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Juniper perimeter router must be configured drop IPv6 packets with a Routing Header type 0, 1, or 3255.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The routing header can be used maliciously to send a packet through a path where less robust security is in place, rather tha...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000364-RTR-000202

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Juniper perimeter router must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing a Hop-by-Hop header with invalid option type values.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;These options are intended to be for the Destination Options header only. The optional and extensible natures of the IPv6 ext...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000364-RTR-000203

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Juniper perimeter router must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing a Destination Option header with invalid option type values.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;These options are intended to be for the Hop-by-Hop header only. The optional and extensible natures of the IPv6 extension he...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000364-RTR-000204

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Juniper perimeter router must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing an extension header with the Endpoint Identification option.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The optional and extensible natures of the IPv6 extension headers require higher scrutiny since many implementations do not a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000364-RTR-000205

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Juniper perimeter router must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing the NSAP address option within Destination Option header.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The optional and extensible natures of the IPv6 extension headers require higher scrutiny since many implementations do not a...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000364-RTR-000206

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Juniper perimeter router must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing a Hop-by-Hop or Destination Option extension header with an undefined option type.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The optional and extensible natures of the IPv6 extension headers require higher scrutiny since many implementations do not a...
    Rule Medium Severity

The content of the drawer really is up to you. It could have form fields, definition lists, text lists, labels, charts, progress bars, etc. Spacing recommendation is 24px margins. You can put tabs in here, and can also make the drawer scrollable.

Capacity
Modules