For nonlocal maintenance sessions, the Juniper SRX Services Gateway must remove or explicitly deny the use of nonsecure protocols.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-223209	JUSX-DM-000109	SV-223209r960966_rule		Medium

Description
If unsecured protocols (lacking cryptographic mechanisms) are used for sessions, the contents of those sessions will be susceptible to manipulation, potentially allowing alteration and hijacking of maintenance sessions. Nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic activities are those activities conducted by individuals communicating through a network, either an external network (e.g., the Internet) or an internal network. Tools used for nonlocal management and diagnostics with the Juniper SRX include SSH but may also include compatible enterprise maintenance and diagnostics servers. Regardless of the tool used, the Juniper SRX must permit only the use of protocols with the capability to be configured securely with integrity protections. Specifically, use SSH instead of Telnet, SCP instead of FTP, and SNMPv3 rather than other versions SNMP.

Description

If unsecured protocols (lacking cryptographic mechanisms) are used for sessions, the contents of those sessions will be susceptible to manipulation, potentially allowing alteration and hijacking of maintenance sessions. Nonlocal maintenance and diagnostic activities are those activities conducted by individuals communicating through a network, either an external network (e.g., the Internet) or an internal network. Tools used for nonlocal management and diagnostics with the Juniper SRX include SSH but may also include compatible enterprise maintenance and diagnostics servers. Regardless of the tool used, the Juniper SRX must permit only the use of protocols with the capability to be configured securely with integrity protections. Specifically, use SSH instead of Telnet, SCP instead of FTP, and SNMPv3 rather than other versions SNMP.

STIG	Date
Juniper SRX SG NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide	2024-06-10

Details

Check Text ( C-24882r513314_chk )
Verify nonsecure protocols are not enabled for management access by viewing the enabled system services. From the operational hierarchy: > show config \| match "set system services" \| display set From the configuration hierarchy: [edit] show snmp show system services telnet show system services ftp show system services ssh If nonsecure protocols and protocol versions such as Telnet, FTP, SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, or SSHv1 are enabled, this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-24882r513314_chk )

Verify nonsecure protocols are not enabled for management access by viewing the enabled system services.

From the operational hierarchy:

> show config | match "set system services" | display set

From the configuration hierarchy:

[edit]
show snmp
show system services telnet
show system services ftp
show system services ssh

If nonsecure protocols and protocol versions such as Telnet, FTP, SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, or SSHv1 are enabled, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-24870r513315_fix)
Remove or deny nonsecure protocols to prevent their usage for nonlocal management and diagnostic communications. Use the delete command to disable services that should not be enabled. Example deletion commands: [edit] delete system services telnet delete system services ftp delete snmp v1 delete snmp v2c delete set system services ssh protocol-version v1