Details

A rogue router could send a fictitious routing update to convince a site’s premise router to send traffic to an incorrect or even a rogue destination. This diverted traffic could be analyzed to learn confidential information of the site’s network, or merely used to disrupt the network’s ability to effectively communicate with other networks.

Solution

Configure authentication for all IGP peers.

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://iasecontent.disa.mil/stigs/zip/U_Network_Infrastructure_Router_L3_Switch_V8R29_STIG.ziphttps://iasecontent.disa.mil/stigs/zip/U_Network_Infrastructure_Router_L3_Switch_V8R29_STIG.zip

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: System and Communications Protection.This control applies to the following type of system Juniper.

References

• 800-53|SC-8(1)
• CAT|II
• Rule-ID|SV-15291r2_rule
• STIG-ID|NET0400
• Vuln-ID|V-3034

Source

• Tenable.com/audits