| V-256055 | High | The PE router providing MPLS Virtual Private Wire Service (VPWS) must be configured to have the appropriate virtual circuit identification (VC ID) for each attachment circuit. | VPWS is an L2VPN technology that provides a virtual circuit between two PE routers to forward Layer 2 frames between two customer-edge routers or routers through an MPLS-enabled IP core. The... |
| V-256015 | High | The Arista 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... |
| V-256016 | High | The Arista router must be configured to restrict traffic destined to itself. | The route processor handles traffic destined to the router, the key component used to build forwarding paths that is also instrumental with all network management functions. Hence, any disruption... |
| V-256026 | High | The Arista perimeter router must be configured to restrict it from accepting outbound IP packets that contain an illegitimate address in the source address field via egress filter or by enabling Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF). | A compromised host in an enclave can be used by a malicious platform to launch cyberattacks on third parties. This is a common practice in "botnets", a collection of compromised computers using... |
| V-256002 | High | 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... |
| V-256003 | High | 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... |
| V-256052 | High | The PE router must be configured to have each Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) instance bound to the appropriate physical or logical interfaces to maintain traffic separation between all MPLS L3VPNs. | The primary security model for an MPLS L3VPN infrastructure is traffic separation. The service provider must guarantee the customer that traffic from one VPN does not leak into another VPN or into... |
| V-256021 | High | The Arista router must be configured to block any traffic that is destined to IP core infrastructure. | IP/MPLS networks providing VPN and transit services must provide, at the least, the same level of protection against denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and intrusions as Layer 2 networks. Although... |
| V-256053 | High | The PE router must be configured to have each Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) instance with the appropriate Route Target (RT). | The primary security model for an MPLS L3VPN as well as a VRF-lite infrastructure is traffic separation. Each interface can only be associated to one VRF, which is the fundamental framework for... |
| V-255989 | Medium | 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. |
| V-256047 | Medium | The Arista Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to only accept MSDP packets from known MSDP peers. | MSDP peering with customer network routers presents additional risks to the DISN Core, whether from a rogue or misconfigured MSDP-enabled router. To guard against an attack from malicious MSDP... |
| V-256019 | Medium | The Arista perimeter router must be configured to filter egress traffic at the internal interface on an inbound direction. | Access lists are used to separate data traffic into that which it will route (permitted packets) and that which it will not route (denied packets). Secure configuration of routers makes use of... |
| V-256032 | Medium | The Arista router must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) unreachable notifications 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... |
| V-256030 | Medium | The Arista 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... |
| V-256017 | Medium | The Arista 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. |
| V-256010 | Medium | 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... |
| V-256038 | Medium | The Arista multicast Designated Router (DR) must be configured to increase the shortest-path tree (SPT) threshold or set it to infinity to minimalize source-group (S, G) state within the multicast topology where Any Source Multicast (ASM) is deployed. | ASM can have many sources for the same groups (many-to-many). For many receivers, the path via the RP may not be ideal compared with the shortest path from the source to the receiver. By default,... |
| V-256051 | Medium | The MPLS router must be configured to have TTL propagation disabled. | The head end of the label-routered path (LSP), the label edge router (LER) will decrement the IP packet's time-to-live (TTL) value by one and then copy the value to the MPLS TTL field. At each... |
| V-256035 | Medium | The Arista BGP router must be configured to use the maximum prefixes feature to protect against route table flooding and prefix de-aggregation attacks. | The effects of prefix de-aggregation can degrade router performance due to the size of routing tables and also result in black-holing legitimate traffic. Initiated by an attacker or a... |
| V-256034 | Medium | The Arista router must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirects 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... |
| V-256033 | Medium | The Arista router must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) mask replies 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... |
| V-256054 | Medium | The PE router must be configured to have each VRF with the appropriate Route Distinguisher (RD). | An RD provides uniqueness to the customer address spaces within the MPLS L3VPN infrastructure. The concept of the VPN-IPv4 and VPN-IPv6 address families consists of the RD prepended before the IP... |
| V-255991 | Medium | 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... |
| V-255990 | Medium | 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... |
| V-256012 | Medium | 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... |
| V-255997 | Medium | 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... |
| V-255999 | Medium | 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... |
| V-255998 | Medium | 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... |
| V-256025 | Medium | The Arista router must be configured to only permit management traffic that ingresses and egresses the OOBM interface. | The OOBM access router will connect to the management interface of the managed network elements. The management interface can be a true OOBM interface or a standard interface functioning as the... |
| V-256059 | Medium | The Arista perimeter router must be configured to suppress Router Advertisements on all external IPv6-enabled interfaces. | Many of the known attacks in stateless autoconfiguration are defined in RFC 3756 were present in IPv4 ARP attacks. To mitigate these vulnerabilities, links that have no hosts connected such as the... |
| V-255988 | Medium | 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... |
| V-256058 | Medium | The Arista router must not be configured to use IPv6 Site Local Unicast addresses. | As currently defined, site local addresses are ambiguous and can be present in multiple sites. The address itself does not contain any indication of the site to which it belongs. The use of... |
| V-256041 | Medium | The Arista perimeter router must be configured to block inbound packets with source Bogon IP address prefixes. | Bogons include IP packets on the public internet that contain addresses that are not in any range allocated or delegated by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) or a delegated regional... |
| V-256006 | Medium | 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... |
| V-256005 | Medium | 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... |
| V-256029 | Medium | The Arista router must not be configured to have any zero-touch deployment feature enabled when connected to an operational network. | Network devices that are configured via a zero-touch deployment or auto-loading feature can have their startup configuration or image pushed to the device for installation via TFTP or Remote Copy... |
| V-256028 | Medium | 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. | LDP provides the signaling required for setting up and tearing down pseudowires (virtual circuits used to transport Layer 2 frames) across an MPLS IP core network. Using a targeted LDP session,... |
| V-256024 | Medium | The out-of-band management (OOBM) Arista gateway router must be configured to block any traffic destined to itself that is not sourced from the OOBM network or the NOC. | 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. It is imperative that... |
| V-256018 | Medium | The Arista perimeter router must be configured to filter ingress traffic at the external interface on an inbound direction. | Access lists are used to separate data traffic into that which it will route (permitted packets) and that which it will not route (denied packets). Secure configuration of routers makes use of... |
| V-256008 | Medium | 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... |
| V-256027 | Medium | The Arista BGP router must be configured to use a unique key for each autonomous system (AS) that it peers with. | If the same keys are used between eBGP neighbors, the chance of a hacker compromising any of the BGP sessions increases. It is possible that a malicious user exists in one autonomous system who... |
| V-256020 | Medium | The Arista BGP router must be configured to reject outbound route advertisements for any prefixes belonging to the IP core. | Outbound route advertisements belonging to the core can result in traffic either looping or being black holed, or at a minimum, using a non-optimized path. |
| V-256022 | Medium | The Arista router must be configured with Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF) loose mode enabled on all CE-facing interfaces. | The uRPF feature is a defense against spoofing and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by verifying if the source address of any ingress packet is reachable. To mitigate attacks that rely on forged... |
| V-256023 | Medium | The out-of-band management (OOBM) Arista gateway router must be configured to forward only authorized management traffic to the Network Operations Center (NOC). | The OOBM network is an IP network used exclusively for the transport of OAM&P data from the network being managed to the OSS components located at the NOC. Its design provides connectivity to each... |
| V-256060 | Medium | The perimeter router must be configured to block all packets with any IP options. | Packets with IP options are not fast routered and henceforth must be punted to the router processor. Hackers who initiate denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on routers commonly send large streams of... |
| V-256044 | Medium | The Arista perimeter router must be configured to block all outbound management traffic. | For in-band management, the management network must have its own subnet in order to enforce control and access boundaries provided by Layer 3 network nodes, such as routers and firewalls.... |
| V-256043 | Medium | The Arista perimeter router must be configured to have Proxy ARP disabled on all external interfaces. | When Proxy ARP is enabled on a Cisco router, it allows that router to extend the network (at Layer 2) across multiple interfaces (LAN segments). Because proxy ARP allows hosts from different LAN... |
| V-256040 | Medium | The Arista 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... |
| V-256046 | Medium | The Arista 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. | Real-time multicast traffic can entail multiple large flows of data. Large unicast flows tend to be fairly isolated (i.e., someone doing a file download here or there), whereas multicast can have... |
| V-255987 | Medium | The Arista 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... |
| V-256061 | Medium | The PE router must be configured to ignore or block all packets with any IP options. | Packets with IP options are not fast routered and therefore must be punted to the router processor. Hackers who initiate denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on routers commonly send large streams of... |
| V-256009 | Low | 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... |
| V-256039 | Low | The Arista BGP router must be configured to enable the Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM). | GTSM is designed to protect a router's IP-based control plane from DoS attacks. Many attacks focused on CPU load and line-card overload can be prevented by implementing GTSM on all Exterior Border... |
| V-256031 | Low | The Arista router must be configured to have IP directed broadcast disabled on all interfaces. | An IP-directed broadcast is a datagram sent to the broadcast address of a subnet that is not directly attached to the sending machine. The directed broadcast is routed through the network as a... |
| V-256014 | Low | The PE router must be configured to enforce a Quality-of-Service (QoS) policy in accordance with the QoS GIG Technical Profile. | Different applications have unique requirements and toleration levels for delay, jitter, bandwidth, packet loss, and availability. To manage the multitude of applications and services, a network... |
| V-256011 | Low | 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... |
| V-256013 | Low | The PE router must be configured to enforce a Quality-of-Service (QoS) policy in accordance with the QoS DODIN Technical Profile. | Different applications have unique requirements and toleration levels for delay, jitter, bandwidth, packet loss, and availability. To manage the multitude of applications and services, a network... |
| V-256050 | Low | The MPLS router must be configured to synchronize IGP and LDP to minimize packet loss when an IGP adjacency is established prior to LDP peers completing label exchange. | Packet loss can occur when an IGP adjacency is established and the router begins forwarding packets using the new adjacency before the LDP label exchange completes between the peers on that link.... |
| V-256057 | Low | The Arista router must be configured to advertise a hop limit of at least 32 in Router Advertisement messages for IPv6 stateless auto-configuration deployments. | The Neighbor Discovery protocol allows a hop limit value to be advertised by routers in a Router Advertisement message being used by hosts instead of the standardized default value. If a very... |
| V-256056 | Low | The Arista Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to use its loopback address as the source address when originating MSDP traffic. | Using a loopback address as the source address offers a multitude of uses for security, access, management, and scalability of MSDP routers. It is easier to construct appropriate ingress filters... |
| V-255993 | Low | 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... |
| V-255992 | Low | 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)... |
| V-255995 | Low | 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. |
| V-255996 | Low | 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... |
| V-255994 | Low | 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... |
| V-256000 | Low | 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... |
| V-256001 | Low | 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... |
| V-256004 | Low | 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... |
| V-256007 | Low | 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... |
| V-256037 | Low | The multicast Rendezvous Point (RP) Arista router must be configured to limit the multicast forwarding cache so that its resources are not saturated by managing an overwhelming number of Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) and Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) source-active entries. | MSDP peering between networks enables sharing of multicast source information. Enclaves with an existing multicast topology using PIM-SM can configure their RP routers to peer with MSDP routers.... |
| V-256045 | Low | The Arista 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. | Real-time multicast traffic can entail multiple large flows of data. Large unicast flows tend to be fairly isolated (i.e., someone doing a file download here or there), whereas multicast can have... |
| V-256042 | Low | The Arista perimeter router must be configured to have Link Layer Discovery Protocols (LLDPs) disabled on all external interfaces. | LLDPs are primarily used to obtain protocol addresses of neighboring devices and discover platform capabilities of those devices. Use of SNMP with the LLDP Management Information Base (MIB) allows... |
| V-256036 | Low | The Arista BGP router must be configured to limit the prefix size on any inbound route advertisement to /24 or the least significant prefixes issued to the customer. | The effects of prefix de-aggregation can degrade router performance due to the size of routing tables and also result in black-holing legitimate traffic. Initiated by an attacker or a... |
| V-256048 | Low | The Arista BGP router must be configured to use its loopback address as the source address for iBGP peering sessions. | Using a loopback address as the source address offers a multitude of uses for security, access, management, and scalability of the BGP routers. It is easier to construct appropriate ingress... |
| V-256049 | Low | The MPLS router must be configured to use its loopback address as the source address for LDP peering sessions. | Using a loopback address as the source address offers a multitude of uses for security, access, management, and scalability of backbone routers. It is easier to construct appropriate ingress... |
