JUNI-RT-000360 - The Juniper perimeter router must be configured to have Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) disabled on all external interfaces - LLDP disabled on all external interfaces.

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Information

LLDPs are primarily used to obtain protocol addresses of neighboring devices and discover platform capabilities of those devices. Use of SNMP with the LLDP Management Information Base (MIB) allows network management applications to learn the device type and the SNMP agent address of neighboring devices, thereby enabling the application to send SNMP queries to those devices. LLDPs are also media- and protocol-independent as they run over the data link layer; therefore, two systems that support different network-layer protocols can still learn about each other. Allowing LLDP messages to reach external network nodes is dangerous as it provides an attacker a method to obtain information of the network infrastructure that can be useful to plan an attack.

NOTE: Nessus has provided the target output to assist in reviewing the benchmark to ensure target compliance.

Solution

This requirement is not applicable for the DoDIN Backbone.

Disable LLDP on all external interfaces. If necessary, remove the interface all parameter and define all internal interfaces as shown in the example below.

[edit protocols lldp]
delete interface all
set interface ge-0/1/0
set interface ge-0/1/1

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Juniper_Router_Y22M04_STIG.zip

Item Details

References: CAT|III, CCI|CCI-002403, Rule-ID|SV-217041r604135_rule, STIG-ID|JUNI-RT-000360, STIG-Legacy|SV-101077, STIG-Legacy|V-90867, Vuln-ID|V-217041

Plugin: Juniper

Control ID: 57db36462789552622c2777e1cbeafa2d9283d4c2a6dc6d5449e11782fb2ce52