III - Administrative Public
Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile
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SRG-NET-000018-RTR-000001
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The Juniper router must be configured to enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information within the network based on organization-defined information flow control policies.
Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within a network and between interconnected networks. The flow of all network traffic must be monitored and controlled so i...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000230-RTR-000001
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The Juniper router must be configured to implement message authentication for all control plane protocols.
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-000230-RTR-000003
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The Juniper router must be configured to use keys with a duration not exceeding 180 days for authenticating routing protocol messages.
If the keys used for routing protocol authentication are guessed, the malicious user could create havoc within the network by advertising incorrect routes and redirecting traffic. Some routing prot...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000168-RTR-000077
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The Juniper router must be configured to use encryption for routing protocol authentication.
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-000168-RTR-000078
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The Juniper router must be configured to authenticate all routing protocol messages using NIST-validated FIPS 140-2 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-000019-RTR-000007
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The Juniper 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-000131-RTR-000035
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The Juniper 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-000362-RTR-000110
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The Juniper router must be configured to protect against or limit the effects of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by employing control plane protection.
The Routing Engine (RE) is critical to all network operations because it is the component used to build all forwarding paths for the data plane via control plane processes. It is also instrumental ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000205-RTR-000001
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The Juniper router must be configured to restrict traffic destined to itself.
The Routing Engine handles traffic destined to the router—the key component used to build forwarding paths and is instrumental with all network management functions. Hence, any disruption or DoS at...Rule High Severity -
SRG-NET-000205-RTR-000002
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The Juniper router must be configured to drop all fragmented Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packets destined to itself.
Fragmented ICMP packets can be generated by hackers for DoS attacks such as Ping O' Death and Teardrop. It is imperative that all fragmented ICMP packets are dropped.Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000362-RTR-000111
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The Juniper router must be configured to have Gratuitous ARP disabled on all external interfaces.
A gratuitous ARP is an ARP broadcast in which the source and destination MAC addresses are the same. It is used to inform the network about a host IP address. A spoofed gratuitous ARP message can c...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000362-RTR-000113
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The Juniper router must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) unreachable messages disabled on all external interfaces.
The ICMP supports IP traffic by relaying information about paths, routes, and network conditions. Routers automatically send ICMP messages under a wide variety of conditions. Host unreachable ICMP ...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000362-RTR-000114
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The Juniper router must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) mask reply messages disabled on all external interfaces.
The ICMP supports IP traffic by relaying information about paths, routes, and network conditions. Routers automatically send ICMP messages under a wide variety of conditions. Mask Reply ICMP messag...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000362-RTR-000115
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The Juniper router must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirect messages disabled on all external interfaces.
The ICMP supports IP traffic by relaying information about paths, routes, and network conditions. Routers automatically send ICMP messages under a wide variety of conditions. Redirect ICMP messages...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000078-RTR-000001
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The Juniper router must be configured to log all packets that have been dropped.
Auditing and logging are key components of any security architecture. It is essential for security personnel to know what is being done or attempted to be done, and by whom, to compile an accurate ...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-NET-000076-RTR-000001
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The Juniper 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-000077-RTR-000001
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The Juniper router must be configured to produce audit records containing information to establish the source of the events.
Without establishing the source of the event, it is impossible to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack. In order to compile an accurate risk assessmen...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000019-RTR-000001
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The Juniper router must be configured to disable the auxiliary port unless it is connected to a secured modem providing encryption and authentication.
The use of POTS lines to modems connecting to network devices provides clear text of authentication traffic over commercial circuits that could be captured and used to compromise the network. Addit...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-NET-000202-RTR-000001
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The Juniper perimeter router must be configured to deny network traffic by default and allow network traffic by exception.
A deny-all, permit-by-exception network communications traffic policy ensures that only connections that are essential and approved are allowed. This requirement applies to both inbound and outbou...Rule High Severity -
SRG-NET-000019-RTR-000002
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The Juniper 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-000364-RTR-000109
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The Juniper perimeter router must be configured to only allow incoming communications from authorized sources to be routed to authorized destinations.
Unrestricted traffic may contain malicious traffic that poses a threat to an enclave or to other connected networks. Additionally, unrestricted traffic may transit a network, which uses bandwidth a...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000364-RTR-000110
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The Juniper perimeter router must be configured to block inbound packets with source Bogon IP address prefixes.
Packets with Bogon IP source addresses should never be allowed to traverse the IP core. Bogon IP networks are RFC1918 addresses or address blocks that have never been assigned by the IANA or have b...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000019-RTR-000008
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The Juniper perimeter router must be configured to protect an enclave connected to an approved gateway by using an inbound filter that only permits packets with destination addresses within the site's address space.
Enclaves with approved 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 coming...Rule High Severity -
SRG-NET-000019-RTR-000009
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The Juniper perimeter router must be configured to not be a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) peer to an approved gateway service provider.
Internet service providers (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...Rule High Severity -
SRG-NET-000019-RTR-000010
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The Juniper 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
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