The RUCKUS ICX BGP router must be configured to reject outbound route advertisements for any prefixes that do not belong to any customer or the local autonomous system (AS).
Severity | Group ID | Group Title | Version | Rule ID | Date | STIG Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| medium | V-273573 | SRG-NET-000018-RTR-000005 | RCKS-RTR-000050 | SV-273573r1111031_rule | 2025-06-03 | 1 |
Description
Advertisement of routes by an autonomous system for networks that do not belong to any of its customers pulls traffic away from the authorized network. This causes a denial of service (DoS) on the network that allocated the block of addresses and may cause a DoS on the network that is inadvertently advertising it as the originator. It is also possible that a misconfigured or compromised router within the GIG IP core could redistribute IGP routes into BGP, thereby leaking internal routes.
ℹ️ Check
Review the router configuration to verify there is a filter defined to only advertise routes for prefixes that belong to any customers or the local AS.
This requirement is not applicable for the DODIN Backbone.
1. Verify a prefix-list is configured for routes belonging to the local AS.
ICX# show ip prefix-lists
ip prefix-list local-AS: 2 entries
seq 5 permit x.1.1.0/24
seq 10 permit x.1.2.0/24
2. Verify the prefix-list is applied to outbound routes to neighbors.
ICX# show ip bgp config
Current BGP configuration:
router bgp
local-as 1000
neighbor x.x.x.x remote-as 1001
neighbor x.x.x.x prefix-list local-AS out
If the router does not filter out prefix advertisements that do not belong on the local AS, this is a finding.
✔️ Fix
Configure a prefix-list representing prefixes that belong to the local-AS and apply them to BGP neighbors similar to what is shown below:
ip prefix-list mylist seq 10 permit x.1.1.0/24
ip prefix-list mylist seq 10 permit x.1.2.0/24
ip prefix-list mylist seq 15 deny 0.0.0.0/0 ge 8
router bgp
local-as 1000
neighbor x.x.x.x remote-as 1001
neighbor x.x.x.x prefix-list local-AS out