| V-237049 | High | The A10 Networks ADC must protect against TCP and UDP Denial of Service (DoS) attacks by employing Source-IP based connection-rate limiting. | If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attacks, network resources will be unavailable to users. Installation of content filtering gateways and application layer firewalls at key... |
| V-237062 | High | The A10 Networks ADC must protect against ICMP-based Denial of Service (DoS) attacks by employing ICMP Rate Limiting. | If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attacks, network resources will be unavailable to users. Installation of content filtering gateways and application layer firewalls at key... |
| V-237064 | High | The A10 Networks ADC must be a FIPS-compliant version. | Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to protect data. The network element must implement cryptographic modules adhering to the higher... |
| V-237038 | Medium | The A10 Networks ADC when used for TLS encryption and decryption must validate certificates used for TLS functions by performing RFC 5280-compliant certification path validation. | A certificate's certification path is the path from the end entity certificate to a trusted root certification authority (CA). Certification path validation is necessary for a relying party to... |
| V-237039 | Medium | The A10 Networks ADC must not have any unnecessary or unapproved virtual servers configured. | A deny-all, permit-by-exception network communications traffic policy ensures that only those connections which are essential and approved are allowed.
A virtual server is an instance where the... |
| V-237032 | Medium | The A10 Networks ADC, when used for TLS encryption and decryption, must be configured to comply with the required TLS settings in NIST SP 800-52. | SP 800-52 provides guidance on using the most secure version and configuration of the TLS/SSL protocol. Using older unauthorized versions or incorrectly configuring protocol negotiation makes the... |
| V-237036 | Medium | The A10 Networks ADC must use DNS Proxy mode when Global Server Load Balancing is used. | Unrelated or unneeded proxy services increase the attack vector and add excessive complexity to the securing of the device. Multiple application proxies can be installed on many devices. However,... |
| V-237037 | Medium | The A10 Networks ADC must be configured to prohibit or restrict the use of functions, ports, protocols, and/or services as defined in the PPSM CAL and vulnerability assessments. | In order to prevent unauthorized connection of devices, unauthorized transfer of information, or unauthorized tunneling (i.e., embedding of data types within data types); organizations must... |
| V-237035 | Medium | The A10 Networks ADC must not have unnecessary scripts installed. | Information systems are capable of providing a wide variety of functions (capabilities or processes) and services. Some of these functions and services are installed and enabled by default. The... |
| V-237058 | Medium | The A10 Networks ADC must reveal error messages only to authorized individuals (ISSO, ISSM, and SA). | Only authorized personnel should be aware of errors and the details of the errors. Error messages are an indicator of an organization's operational state or can give configuration details about... |
| V-237048 | Medium | The A10 Networks ADC being used for TLS encryption and decryption using PKI-based user authentication must only accept end entity certificates issued by DoD PKI or DoD-approved PKI Certificate Authorities (CAs) for the establishment of protected sessions. | Non-DoD approved PKIs have not been evaluated to ensure that they have security controls and identity vetting procedures in place which are sufficient for DoD systems to rely on the identity... |
| V-237050 | Medium | The A10 Networks ADC must implement load balancing to limit the effects of known and unknown types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. | Although maintaining high availability is normally an operational consideration, load balancing is also a useful strategy in mitigating network-based DoS attacks. If the network does not provide... |
| V-237051 | Medium | The A10 Networks ADC must enable DDoS filters. | If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attacks, network resources will be unavailable to users. Installation of content filtering gateways and application layer firewalls at key... |
| V-237052 | Medium | The A10 Networks ADC, when used to load balance web applications, must examine incoming user requests against the URI White Lists. | Unrestricted traffic may contain malicious traffic, which poses a threat to an enclave or to other connected networks. Additionally, unrestricted traffic may transit a network, which uses... |
| V-237054 | Medium | The A10 Networks ADC must enable logging for packet anomaly events. | Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of major detection incidents that require immediate action and this delay may result in the loss or compromise of information. Since these... |
| V-237055 | Medium | The A10 Networks ADC must generate an alert to, at a minimum, the ISSO and ISSM when threats identified by authoritative sources (e.g., IAVMs or CTOs) are detected. | Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of major detection incidents that require immediate action and this delay may result in the loss or compromise of information.
The device... |
| V-237056 | Medium | The A10 Networks ADC must enable logging of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. | Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of major detection incidents that require immediate action, and this delay may result in the loss or compromise of information. CJCSM 6510.01B,... |
| V-237057 | Medium | The A10 Networks ADC, when used for load-balancing web servers, must not allow the HTTP TRACE and OPTIONS methods. | HTTP offers a number of methods that can be used to perform actions on the web server. Some of these HTTP methods can be used for nefarious purposes if the web server is misconfigured. The two... |
| V-237061 | Medium | If the Data Owner requires it, the A10 Networks ADC must be configured to perform CCN Mask, SSN Mask, and PCRE Mask Request checks. | If outbound communications traffic is not continuously monitored, hostile activity may not be detected and prevented. Output from application and traffic monitoring serves as input to continuous... |
| V-237060 | Medium | The A10 Networks ADC, when used for load balancing web servers, must deploy the WAF in active mode. | The Web Application Firewall (WAF) supports three operational modes - Learning, Passive, and Active. Active is the standard operational mode and must be used in order to drop or sanitize traffic.... |
| V-237063 | Medium | The A10 Networks ADC must protect against TCP SYN floods by using TCP SYN Cookies. | A SYN flood is a form of denial-of-service attack in which an attacker sends a succession of SYN requests to a target in an attempt to consume resources, making the device unresponsive to... |
| V-237043 | Medium | To protect against data mining, the A10 Networks ADC must detect and prevent code injection attacks launched against application objects including, at a minimum, application URLs and application code. | Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to prevent attacks launched against organizational information from... |
| V-237042 | Medium | To protect against data mining, the A10 Networks ADC must detect and prevent SQL and other code injection attacks launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, queries, and fields. | Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to prevent attacks launched against organizational information from... |
| V-237041 | Medium | The A10 Networks ADC, when used to load balance web applications, must replace response codes. | Providing too much information in error messages risks compromising the data and security of the application and system. HTTP response codes can be used by an attacker to learn how a web server... |
| V-237040 | Medium | The A10 Networks ADC, when used to load balance web applications, must strip HTTP response headers. | Providing too much information in error messages risks compromising the data and security of the application and system. HTTP response headers can disclose vulnerabilities about a web server. This... |
| V-237047 | Medium | To protect against data mining, the A10 Networks ADC providing content filtering as part of its intermediary services must detect code injection attacks launched against application objects including, at a minimum, application URLs and application code. | Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to detect attacks launched against organizational applications may... |
| V-237046 | Medium | To protect against data mining, the A10 Networks ADC providing content filtering must detect SQL injection attacks launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, and database fields. | Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to detect attacks launched against organizational databases may result... |
| V-237045 | Medium | To protect against data mining, the A10 Networks ADC providing content filtering must detect code injection attacks from being launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, queries, and fields. | Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to detect attacks launched against organizational databases may result... |
| V-237044 | Medium | To protect against data mining, the A10 Networks ADC providing content filtering must prevent SQL injection attacks launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, and database fields. | Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to prevent attacks launched against organizational information from... |
| V-237033 | Low | The A10 Networks ADC, when used to load balance web applications, must enable external logging for accessing Web Application Firewall data event messages. | Without establishing where events occurred, it is impossible to establish, correlate, and investigate the events leading up to an outage or attack.
External logging must be enabled for WAF data... |
| V-237034 | Low | The A10 Networks ADC must send an alert to, at a minimum, the ISSO and SCA when connectivity to the Syslog servers is lost. | It is critical for the appropriate personnel to be aware if a system is at risk of failing to process audit logs as required. Without this notification, the security personnel may be unaware of an... |
| V-237059 | Low | The A10 Networks ADC must, at a minimum, off-load audit log records onto a centralized log server. | Off-loading ensures audit information does not get overwritten if the limited audit storage capacity is reached and also protects the audit record in case the system/component being audited is... |
| V-237053 | Low | The A10 Networks ADC, when used to load balance web applications, must enable external logging for WAF data event messages. | Without coordinated reporting between separate devices, it is not possible to identify the true scale and possible target of an attack.
External logging must be enabled for WAF data event... |
