JUNI-RT-000900 - The Juniper Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to authenticate all received MSDP packets.

Information

MSDP peering with customer network routers presents additional risks to the core, whether from a rogue or misconfigured MSDP-enabled router. MSDP password authentication is used to validate each segment sent on the TCP connection between MSDP peers, protecting the MSDP session against the threat of spoofed packets being injected into the TCP connection stream.

Solution

Configure the router to authenticate MSDP messages as shown in the following example:

[edit protocols msdp group AS25 peer 5.5.5.5]
set authentication-key xxxxxxxx

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Juniper_Router_Y22M10_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

References: 800-53|IA-3, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001958, Rule-ID|SV-217094r604135_rule, STIG-ID|JUNI-RT-000900, STIG-Legacy|SV-101181, STIG-Legacy|V-90971, Vuln-ID|V-217094

Plugin: Juniper

Control ID: b9bf430bf49ad6274f666dc53cc30b591369f3aa726e71c6da34856606ad264b