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III - Administrative Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-NET-000343

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  • The PE router providing MPLS Layer 2 Virtual Private Network (L2VPN) services must be configured to authenticate targeted Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) sessions used to exchange virtual circuit (VC) information using a FIPS-approved message authentication code algorithm.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;LDP provides the signaling required for setting up and tearing down pseudowires (virtual circuits used to transport Layer 2 f...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000343

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  • The 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-000362

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  • The router must not be configured to have any zero-touch deployment feature enabled when connected to an operational network.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Network devices that are configured via a zero-touch deployment or auto-loading feature can have their startup configuration ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000362

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  • The router must be configured to protect against or limit the effects of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by employing control plane protection.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The Route Processor (RP) is critical to all network operations because it is the component used to build all forwarding paths...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000362

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  • The router must be configured to have Gratuitous ARP disabled on all external interfaces.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;A gratuitous ARP is an ARP broadcast in which the source and destination MAC addresses are the same. It is used to inform the...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000362

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  • The router must be configured to have IP directed broadcast disabled on all interfaces.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;An IP directed broadcast is a datagram sent to the broadcast address of a subnet that is not directly attached to the sending...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000362

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  • The router must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) unreachable notifications disabled on all external interfaces.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The ICMP supports IP traffic by relaying information about paths, routes, and network conditions. Routers automatically send ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000362

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  • The router must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) mask replies disabled on all external interfaces.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The ICMP supports IP traffic by relaying information about paths, routes, and network conditions. Routers automatically send ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000362

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  • The router must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirects disabled on all external interfaces.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The ICMP supports IP traffic by relaying information about paths, routes, and network conditions. Routers automatically send ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000362

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  • The BGP router must be configured to use the maximum prefixes feature to protect against route table flooding and prefix de-aggregation attacks.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The effects of prefix de-aggregation can degrade router performance due to the size of routing tables and also result in blac...
    Rule Medium Severity

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