STIGUI
V-217077CAT II — Medium severitySV-217077r604135_rule

The Juniper PE router must be configured with Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF) loose mode enabled on all CE-facing interfaces.

Rule version JUNI-RT-000720 · STIG v3 · 2024-12-05

Discussion

The uRPF feature is a defense against spoofing and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by verifying if the source address of any ingress packet is reachable. To mitigate attacks that rely on forged source addresses, all provider edge routers must enable uRPF loose mode to guarantee that all packets received from a CE router contain source addresses that are in the route table.

Check

Review the router configuration to determine if uRPF loose mode is enabled on all CE-facing interfaces.

interfaces { ge-0/1/0 { description "link to Customer 2"; unit 0 { family inet { rpf-check { mode loose; } address x.x.x.x/30; } } }

If uRPF loose mode is not enabled on all CE-facing interfaces, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure uRPF loose mode on all CE-facing interfaces as shown in the example.

[edit interfaces ge-0/1/0 unit 0 family inet] set rpf-check mode loose

Identifiers

Group ID
V-217077
Group title
SRG-NET-000205-RTR-000008
Rule ID
SV-217077r604135_rule
Check ID
C-18306r297099_chk
Fix ID
F-18304r297100_fix