The Juniper SRX Services Gateway must terminate a device management session if the keep-alive count is exceeded.

From Juniper SRX SG NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with: CCI-001133

SV-81029r1_rule The Juniper SRX Services Gateway must terminate a device management session if the keep-alive count is exceeded.

Vulnerability discussion

Configuring the keep-alive for management protocols mitigates the risk of an open connection being hijacked by an attacker.The keep-alive messages and the interval between each message are used to force the system to disconnect a user that has lost network connectivity to the device. This differs from inactivity timeouts because the device does not wait the 10 minutes to log the user out but, instead, immediately logs the user out if the number of keep-alive messages are exceeded. The interval between messages should also be configured. These values should be set to an organization-defined value based on mission requirements and network performance.

Check content

Verify this setting by entering the following commands in configuration mode. [edit] show system services ssh If the keep-alive count and keep-alive interval is not set to an organization-defined value, this is a finding.

Fix text

Configure this setting by entering the following commands in configuration mode. [edit] set system services ssh client-alive-count-max set system services ssh client-alive-interval

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