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V-217021CAT II — Medium severitySV-217021r855889_rule

The Juniper router must be configured to have Gratuitous ARP disabled on all external interfaces.

Rule version JUNI-RT-000150 · STIG v3 · 2024-12-05

Discussion

A gratuitous ARP is an ARP broadcast in which the source and destination MAC addresses are the same. It is used to inform the network about a host IP address. A spoofed gratuitous ARP message can cause network mapping information to be stored incorrectly, causing network malfunction.

Check

Review the configuration to determine if gratuitous ARP is disabled on all external interfaces. The following command should not be set to any interface: gratuitous-arp-reply

If gratuitous ARP is enabled on any external interface, this is a finding.

Fix

Disable gratuitous ARP on all external interfaces using the following command.

[edit interfaces ge-1/1/0 ] delete gratuitous-arp-reply

Identifiers

Group ID
V-217021
Group title
SRG-NET-000362-RTR-000111
Rule ID
SV-217021r855889_rule
Check ID
C-18250r296931_chk
Fix ID
F-18248r296932_fix