| V-266137 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance providing user access control intermediary services must limit the number of concurrent sessions to one or an organization-defined number for each access profile. | The "Max In Progress Sessions Per Client IP" setting in an APM Access Profile is a security configuration that limits the number of simultaneous sessi... |
| V-266138 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance providing intermediary services for remote access communications traffic must ensure inbound and outbound traffic is monitored for compliance with remote access security policies. | Automated monitoring of remote access traffic allows organizations to detect cyberattacks and also ensure ongoing compliance with remote access polici... |
| V-266140 | | To protect against data mining, the F5 BIG-IP appliance providing content filtering must prevent code injection attacks from being launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, queries, and fields. | Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to prevent attacks launche... |
| V-266141 | | To protect against data mining, the F5 BIG-IP appliance providing content filtering must prevent code injection attacks launched against application objects including, at a minimum, application URLs and application code. | Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to prevent attacks launche... |
| V-266142 | | To protect against data mining, the F5 BIG-IP appliance providing content filtering must prevent SQL injection attacks launched against data storage objects, including, at a minimum, databases, database records, and database fields. | Data mining is the analysis of large quantities of data to discover patterns and is used in intelligence gathering. Failure to prevent attacks launche... |
| V-266145 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance providing user access control intermediary services must display the Standard Mandatory DOD-approved Notice and Consent Banner before granting access to the network. | Display of a standardized and approved use notification before granting access to the network ensures privacy and security notification verbiage used ... |
| V-266146 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance must generate event log records that can be forwarded to the centralized events log. | Without generating audit records that log usage of objects by subjects and other objects, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investiga... |
| V-266147 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance that provides intermediary services for SMTP must inspect inbound and outbound SMTP and Extended SMTP communications traffic for protocol compliance and protocol anomalies. | Application protocol anomaly detection examines application layer protocols such as SMTP to identify attacks based on observed deviations in the norma... |
| V-266148 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance that intermediary services for FTP must inspect inbound and outbound FTP communications traffic for protocol compliance and protocol anomalies. | Application protocol anomaly detection examines application layer protocols such as FTP to identify attacks based on observed deviations in the normal... |
| V-266149 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance that provides intermediary services for HTTP must inspect inbound and outbound HTTP traffic for protocol compliance and protocol anomalies. | Application protocol anomaly detection examines application layer protocols such as HTTP to identify attacks based on observed deviations in the norma... |
| V-266154 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance providing user authentication intermediary services using PKI-based user authentication must implement a local cache of revocation data to support path discovery and validation in case of the inability to access revocation information via the network. | Without configuring a local cache of revocation data, there is the potential to allow access to users who are no longer authorized (users with revoked... |
| V-266156 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance providing content filtering must employ rate-based attack prevention behavior analysis. | If the network does not provide safeguards against denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, network resources will be unavailable to users.
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| V-266157 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance providing content filtering must protect against or limit the effects of known and unknown types of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by employing pattern recognition pre-processors. | If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attacks, network resources will be unavailable to users.
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| V-266158 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance must check the validity of all data inputs except those specifically identified by the organization. | Invalid user input occurs when a user inserts data or characters into an application's data entry fields and the application is unprepared to process ... |
| V-266159 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance providing content filtering must automatically update malicious code protection mechanisms. | The malicious software detection functionality on network elements needs to be constantly updated to identify new threats as they are discovered.
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| V-266160 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance providing content filtering must detect use of network services that have not been authorized or approved by the information system security manager (ISSM) and information system security officer (ISSO), at a minimum. | Unauthorized or unapproved network services lack organizational verification or validation, and therefore may be unreliable or serve as malicious rogu... |
| V-266161 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance providing content filtering must generate a log record when unauthorized network services are detected. | Unauthorized or unapproved network services lack organizational verification or validation, and therefore may be unreliable or serve as malicious rogu... |
| V-266166 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance must not use the On-demand Cert Auth VPE agent as part of the APM Policy Profiles. | By requiring mutual authentication before any communication, it becomes significantly challenging for attackers to impersonate a client or server and ... |
| V-266167 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to restrict a consistent inbound IP for the entire management session. | This security measure helps limit the effects of denial-of-service attacks by employing antisession hijacking security safeguards. Session hijacking, ... |
| V-266171 | | The F5 BIG-IP must be configured to identify and authenticate all endpoint devices or peers before establishing a connection. | Without identifying and authenticating devices, unidentified or unknown devices may be introduced, thereby facilitating malicious activity.... |
| V-266172 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance providing remote access intermediary services must disable split-tunneling for remote clients' VPNs. | Split tunneling would in effect allow unauthorized external connections, making the system more vulnerable to attack and to exfiltration of organizati... |
| V-266173 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance providing remote access intermediary services must be configured to route sessions to an IDPS for inspection. | Remote access devices, such as those providing remote access to network devices and information systems, which lack automated, capabilities increase r... |
| V-266174 | | The VPN Gateway must use Always On VPN connections for remote computing. | Allowing remote users to manually toggle a VPN connection can create critical security risks. With Always On VPN, if a secured connection to the gatew... |
| V-266162 | | When the Access Profile Type is LTM+APM and it is not using any connectivity resources (such as Network Access, Portal Access, etc.) in the VPE, the F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to enable the HTTP Only flag. | To guard against cookie hijacking, only the BIG-IP APM controller and client must be able to view the full session ID. Setting the APM HTTP Only flag ... |
| V-266163 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to enable the secure cookie flag. | To guard against cookie hijacking, only the BIG-IP APM controller and client must be able to view the full session ID. Session cookies are set only af... |
| V-266164 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to disable the persistent cookie flag. | For BIG-IP APM deployments with connectivity resources (such as Network Access, Portal Access, etc.), BIG-IP APM cookies cannot be set as Persistent. ... |
| V-266168 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to limit authenticated client sessions to initial session source IP. | The "Restrict to Single Client IP” is a safeguard against session hijacking or cookie theft. Even if an attacker manages to steal a session cookie, th... |
| V-266175 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to set the "Max In Progress Sessions per Client IP" value to 10 or an organizational-defined number. | The "Max In Progress Sessions Per Client IP" setting in an APM Access Profile is a security configuration that limits the number of simultaneous sessi... |
| V-266139 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance providing intermediary services for remote access must use FIPS-validated cryptographic algorithms, including TLS 1.2 at a minimum. | Without confidentiality protection mechanisms, unauthorized individuals may gain access to sensitive information via a remote access session.
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| V-266143 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance providing user access control intermediary services must enforce approved authorizations for logical access to information and system resources by employing identity-based, role-based, and/or attribute-based security policies. | Successful authentication must not automatically give an entity access to an asset or security boundary. The lack of authorization-based access contro... |
| V-266144 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance providing user access control intermediary services must implement attribute- and content-based inspection of the source, destination, headers, and/or content of the communications traffic. | Information flow control regulates where information is allowed to travel within a network. The flow of all network traffic must be monitored and cont... |
| V-266150 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to prohibit or restrict the use of unnecessary or prohibited functions, ports, protocols, and/or services, including those defined in the PPSM CAL and vulnerability assessments. | To prevent unauthorized connection of devices, unauthorized transfer of information, or unauthorized tunneling (i.e., embedding of data types within d... |
| V-266152 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance providing user authentication intermediary services must uniquely identify and authenticate users using redundant authentication servers and multifactor authentication (MFA). | To ensure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated to prevent potential misuse and... |
| V-266153 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance must configure certification path validation to ensure revoked machine credentials are prohibited from establishing an allowed session. | A certificate's certification path is the path from the end entity certificate to a trusted root certification authority (CA). Certification path vali... |
| V-266155 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance must terminate all network connections associated with a communications session at the end of the session or after 15 minutes of inactivity. | Terminating an idle session within a short time period reduces the window of opportunity for unauthorized personnel to take control of a management se... |
| V-266165 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance must configure certificate path validation to ensure revoked user credentials are prohibited from establishing an allowed session. | A certificate's certification path is the path from the end entity certificate to a trusted root certification authority (CA). Certification path vali... |
| V-266170 | | The F5 BIG-IP appliance must be configured to use cryptographic algorithms approved by NSA to protect NSS for remote access to a classified network. | Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of utilizing encryption to protect data. The VPN gateway must implement cryptogr... |
