The CA API Gateway must authenticate SNMP endpoint devices before establishing a network connection using bidirectional authentication that is cryptographically based.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-71553	CAGW-DM-000270	SV-86177r1_rule		Medium

Description
Without authenticating devices, unidentified or unknown devices may be introduced, thereby facilitating malicious activity. Bidirectional authentication provides stronger safeguards to validate the identity of other devices for connections that are of greater risk. A local connection is any connection with a device communicating without the use of a network. A network connection is any connection with a device that communicates through a network (e.g., local area or wide area network, Internet). A remote connection is any connection with a device communicating through an external network (e.g., the Internet). Because of the challenges of applying this requirement on a large scale, organizations are encouraged to only apply the requirement to those limited number (and type) of devices that truly need to support this capability. For network device management, this has been determined to be network management device addresses, SNMP authentication, and NTP authentication.

Description

Without authenticating devices, unidentified or unknown devices may be introduced, thereby facilitating malicious activity. Bidirectional authentication provides stronger safeguards to validate the identity of other devices for connections that are of greater risk. A local connection is any connection with a device communicating without the use of a network. A network connection is any connection with a device that communicates through a network (e.g., local area or wide area network, Internet). A remote connection is any connection with a device communicating through an external network (e.g., the Internet). Because of the challenges of applying this requirement on a large scale, organizations are encouraged to only apply the requirement to those limited number (and type) of devices that truly need to support this capability. For network device management, this has been determined to be network management device addresses, SNMP authentication, and NTP authentication.

STIG	Date
CA API Gateway NDM Security Technical Implementation Guide	2016-09-20

Details

Check Text ( C-71925r1_chk )
Verify the "snmptrap" shell command used to emit SNMP TRAPS to the Network Management Station is using Version 3 with User Authentication for each potential trap source identified in this document. "snmptrap -v 3 -a SHA -A mypassword -x AES -X mypassword -l authPriv -u traptest -e 0x8000000001020304 localhost REQUIRED_TRAP_OID" If SNMP Version 3 is not being used, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-77873r1_fix)
Change the "snmptrap" command at each source to use encryption/authentication (Version 3) IE: "snmptrap -v 3 -a SHA -A mypassword -x AES -X mypassword -l authPriv -u traptest -e 0x8000000001020304 localhost REQUIRED_TRAP_OID"