The Juniper 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.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-253976	JUEX-RT-000040	SV-253976r843961_rule		Medium

Description
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 routers connected to the internet or other external networks could be breached and used to launch a prefix deaggregation attack. Without ingress route filtering of customers, the effectiveness of such an attack could impact the entire IP core and its customers.

Description

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 routers connected to the internet or other external networks could be breached and used to launch a prefix deaggregation attack. Without ingress route filtering of customers, the effectiveness of such an attack could impact the entire IP core and its customers.

STIG	Date
Juniper EX Series Switches Router Security Technical Implementation Guide	2024-06-10

Details

Check Text ( C-57428r843959_chk )
Review the BGP router configuration to verify there are filters defined to only accept routes for prefixes that belong to specific customers. Example route-filter-list of customer addresses with corresponding policy-statement referencing the list: [edit policy-options] route-filter-list customer1-routes { orlonger; orlonger; } route-filter-list customer1-routes-ipv6 { orlonger; orlonger; } policy-statement bgp-accept-cust1-routes { term 1 { from { route-filter-list customer1-routes; route-filter-list customer1-routes-ipv6; } then accept; } term 2 { then reject; } } Note: The example shows using route-filter-lists to ease management. The policy-statement also supports the route directly in the match condition. For example, "route-filter orlonger" (in place of route-filter-list customer-routes). Verify the eBGP import statement prevents Junos from importing routes into the route table. Junos accepts import statements at three hierarchy levels: Global protocol, group, and neighbor (peer). Global is the most general, followed by group, and neighbor is the most restrictive. Junos applies only the most restrictive policy so if a policy is configured at the protocol, group, and neighbor level, only the neighbor policy is applied. [edit protocols bgp] group customer1 { import bgp-accept-cust1-routes; neighbor { import bgp-accept-cust1-routes; } } import ; If the router is not configured to reject inbound route advertisements from each CE router for prefixes that are not allocated to that customer, this is a finding. Note: Routes to PE-CE links within a VPN are needed for troubleshooting end-to-end connectivity across the MPLS/IP backbone. Hence, these prefixes are an exception to this requirement.

Check Text ( C-57428r843959_chk )

Review the BGP router configuration to verify there are filters defined to only accept routes for prefixes that belong to specific customers.

Example route-filter-list of customer addresses with corresponding policy-statement referencing the list:
[edit policy-options]
route-filter-list customer1-routes {
orlonger;
orlonger;
}
route-filter-list customer1-routes-ipv6 {
orlonger;
orlonger;
}

policy-statement bgp-accept-cust1-routes {
term 1 {
from {
route-filter-list customer1-routes;
route-filter-list customer1-routes-ipv6;
}
then accept;
}
term 2 {
then reject;
}
}

Note: The example shows using route-filter-lists to ease management. The policy-statement also supports the route directly in the match condition. For example, "route-filter orlonger" (in place of route-filter-list customer-routes).

Verify the eBGP import statement prevents Junos from importing routes into the route table. Junos accepts import statements at three hierarchy levels: Global protocol, group, and neighbor (peer). Global is the most general, followed by group, and neighbor is the most restrictive. Junos applies only the most restrictive policy so if a policy is configured at the protocol, group, and neighbor level, only the neighbor policy is applied.
[edit protocols bgp]
group customer1 {

import bgp-accept-cust1-routes;
neighbor

{

import bgp-accept-cust1-routes;
}
}
import ;

If the router is not configured to reject inbound route advertisements from each CE router for prefixes that are not allocated to that customer, this is a finding.

Note: Routes to PE-CE links within a VPN are needed for troubleshooting end-to-end connectivity across the MPLS/IP backbone. Hence, these prefixes are an exception to this requirement.

Fix Text (F-57379r843960_fix)
Configure all eBGP routers to reject inbound route advertisements from a CE router for prefixes that are not allocated to that customer. set policy-options route-filter-list customer1-routes orlonger set policy-options route-filter-list customer1-routes orlonger set policy-options route-filter-list customer1-routes-ipv6 orlonger set policy-options route-filter-list customer1-routes-ipv6 orlonger set policy-options policy-statement bgp-accept-cust1-routes term 1 from route-filter-list customer-routes set policy-options policy-statement bgp-accept-cust1-routes term 1 from route-filter-list customer-routes-ipv6 set policy-options policy-statement bgp-accept-cust1-routes term 1 then accept set policy-options policy-statement bgp-accept-cust1-routes term 2 then reject set protocols bgp group customer1 import bgp-accept-cust1-routes set protocols bgp group customer1 neighbor import bgp-accept-cust1-routes Note: An import filter is only required at the group, or the neighbor, level but not both unless the specific neighbor requires a different import filter than the group.

Fix Text (F-57379r843960_fix)

Configure all eBGP routers to reject inbound route advertisements from a CE router for prefixes that are not allocated to that customer.

set policy-options route-filter-list customer1-routes orlonger
set policy-options route-filter-list customer1-routes orlonger
set policy-options route-filter-list customer1-routes-ipv6 orlonger
set policy-options route-filter-list customer1-routes-ipv6 orlonger

set policy-options policy-statement bgp-accept-cust1-routes term 1 from route-filter-list customer-routes
set policy-options policy-statement bgp-accept-cust1-routes term 1 from route-filter-list customer-routes-ipv6
set policy-options policy-statement bgp-accept-cust1-routes term 1 then accept
set policy-options policy-statement bgp-accept-cust1-routes term 2 then reject

set protocols bgp group customer1 import bgp-accept-cust1-routes
set protocols bgp group customer1 neighbor

import bgp-accept-cust1-routes

Note: An import filter is only required at the group, or the neighbor, level but not both unless the specific neighbor requires a different import filter than the group.