The Juniper router must be configured to implement message authentication for all control plane protocols.

From Juniper Router RTR Security Technical Implementation Guide

Part of SRG-NET-000025-RTR-000020

Associated with: CCI-000366 CCI-002205

JUNI-RT-000020_rule The Juniper router must be configured to implement message authentication for all control plane protocols.

Vulnerability discussion

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 learn confidential information about the site's network or used to disrupt the network's ability to communicate with other networks. This is known as a "traffic attraction attack" and is prevented by configuring neighbor router authentication for routing updates.This requirement applies to all IPv4 and IPv6 protocols that are used to exchange routing or packet forwarding information; this includes all Interior Gateway Protocols (such as OSPF, EIGRP, and IS-IS) and Exterior Gateway Protocols (such as BGP), MPLS-related protocols (such as LDP), and multicast-related protocols.

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Review the router configuration. Verify that neighbor router authentication is enabled for all routing protocols. The configuration examples below depicts OSPF and BGP authentication. protocols { bgp { group AS_5 { type external; peer-as 5; neighbor x.x.x.x { authentication-key "$9$tBga0ORx7VsYoIEgJ"; ## SECRET-DATA } } } ospf { area 0.0.0.0 { interface ge-0/0/0 { authentication { simple-password "$9$NHVb2mPQ3nCYg/t"; ## SECRET-DATA } } interface ge-0/1/0 { authentication { simple-password "$9$Lgb7NbHkPTQnVwF/"; ## SECRET-DATA } } interface lo0.0; interface ge-0/2/0 { authentication { simple-password "$9$7DdVY.mTF39s26A"; ## SECRET-DATA } } } } } If authentication is not enabled, this is a finding.

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Configure authentication to be enabled for every protocol that affects the routing or forwarding tables. The example configuration commands below enables OSPF and BGP authentication. [edit protocols ospf area 0.0.0.0] set interface ge-0/0/0 authentication simple-password xxxxxxxxxxxx set interface ge-0/1/0 authentication simple-password xxxxxxxxxxxx set interface ge-0/2/0 authentication simple-password xxxxxxxxxxxx [edit protocols bgp group AS_2 neighbor x.x.x.x] set authentication-key xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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