Juniper SRX Services Gateway IDPS Security Technical Implementation Guide

Overview

VersionDateFinding Count (28)Downloads
22024-06-10CAT I (High): 1CAT II (Medium): 27CAT III (Low): 0
STIG Description
This Security Technical Implementation Guide is published as a tool to improve the security of Department of Defense (DOD) information systems. The requirements are derived from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53 and related documents. Comments or proposed revisions to this document should be sent via email to the following address: disa.stig_spt@mail.mil.
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Findings - All

Finding IDSeverityTitleDescription
V-214619
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper Networks SRX Series Gateway IDPS must install updates for predefined signature objects, applications signatures, IDPS policy templates, and device software when new releases are available in accordance with organizational configuration management policy and procedures.Failing to update malicious code protection mechanisms, including application software files, signature definitions, and vendor-provided rules, leaves...
V-214610
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper Networks SRX Series Gateway IDPS must provide audit record generation capability for detecting events based on implementation of policy filters, rules, and signatures.Without the capability to generate audit records, it would be difficult to establish, correlate, and investigate the events relating to an incident, o...
V-214611
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper Networks SRX Series Gateway IDPS must enforce approved authorizations by restricting or blocking the flow of harmful or suspicious communications traffic within the network as defined in the PPSM CAL and vulnerability assessments.The flow of all communications traffic must be monitored and controlled so it does not introduce any unacceptable risk to the network infrastructure o...
V-214612
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper Networks SRX Series Gateway IDPS must restrict or block harmful or suspicious communications traffic between interconnected networks based on attribute- and content-based inspection of the source, destination, headers, and/or content of the communications traffic.The IDPS enforces approved authorizations by controlling the flow of information between interconnected networks to prevent harmful or suspicious traf...
V-214613
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper Networks SRX Series Gateway IDPS must provide audit record generation with a configurable severity and escalation level capability.Without the capability to generate audit records with a severity code it is difficult to track and handle detection events. While auditing and loggin...
V-214614
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper Networks SRX Series Gateway IDPS must block outbound traffic containing known and unknown DoS attacks by ensuring that rules are applied to outbound communications traffic.The IDPS must include protection against DoS attacks that originate from inside the enclave which can affect either internal or external systems. Thes...
V-214615
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper Networks SRX Series Gateway IDPS must block outbound traffic containing known and unknown DoS attacks by ensuring that signature-based objects are applied to outbound communications traffic.The IDPS must include protection against DoS attacks that originate from inside the enclave which can affect either internal or external systems. Thes...
V-214616
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper Networks SRX Series Gateway IDPS must block outbound traffic containing known and unknown DoS attacks by ensuring that anomaly-based attack objects are applied to outbound communications traffic.The IDPS must include protection against DoS attacks that originate from inside the enclave which can affect either internal or external systems. Thes...
V-214617
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper Networks SRX Series Gateway IDPS must detect, at a minimum, mobile code that is unsigned or exhibiting unusual behavior, has not undergone a risk assessment, or is prohibited for use based on a risk assessment.Mobile code is defined as software modules obtained from remote systems, transferred across a network, and then downloaded and executed on a local sys...
V-214618
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper Networks SRX Series Gateway IDPS must block any prohibited mobile code at the enclave boundary when it is detected.Mobile code is defined as software modules obtained from remote systems, transferred across a network, and then downloaded and executed on a local sys...
V-214620
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
To protect against unauthorized data mining, the Juniper Networks SRX Series Gateway IDPS must prevent code injection attacks 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 detect attacks that use...
V-214621
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
To protect against unauthorized data mining, the Juniper Networks SRX Series Gateway IDPS 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 detect attacks that use...
V-214622
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
To protect against unauthorized data mining, the Juniper Networks SRX Series Gateway IDPS 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 detect attacks that use...
V-214623
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
To protect against unauthorized data mining, the Juniper Networks SRX Series Gateway IDPS must detect code injection attacks 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 detect attacks that use...
V-214624
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
To protect against unauthorized data mining, the Juniper Networks SRX Series Gateway IDPS must detect 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 detect attacks that use...
V-214625
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
To protect against unauthorized data mining, the Juniper Networks SRX Series Gateway IDPS must detect 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 detect attacks that use...
V-214626
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper Networks SRX Series Gateway IDPS must protect against or limit the effects of known and unknown types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks by employing rate-based attack prevention behavior analysis.If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attack, network resources will be unavailable to users. Installation of IDPS detection and pre...
V-214627
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper Networks SRX Series Gateway IDPS must protect against or limit the effects of known and unknown types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks by employing anomaly-based detection.If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attack, network resources will be unavailable to users. Installation of IDPS components (i.e.,...
V-214628
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper Networks SRX Series Gateway IDPS must protect against or limit the effects of known types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks by employing signatures.If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attack, network resources will be unavailable to users. Installation of IDPS detection and pr...
V-214629
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The IDPS must send an alert to, at a minimum, the ISSO and ISSM when intrusion detection events are detected that indicate a compromise or potential for compromise.Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of intrusion detection incidents that require immediate action and this delay may result in the lo...
V-214630
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper Networks SRX Series Gateway IDPS must generate an alert to, at a minimum, the ISSO and ISSM when root-level intrusion events that provide unauthorized privileged access are detected.Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of major detection incidents that require immediate action and this delay may result in the loss o...
V-214631
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The IDPS must send an alert to, at a minimum, the ISSO and ISSM when DoS incidents are detected.Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of major detection incidents that require immediate action and this delay may result in the loss o...
V-214632
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper Networks SRX Series Gateway IDPS must automatically install updates to signature definitions.Failing to automatically update malicious code protection mechanisms, including application software files, signature definitions, and vendor-provided...
V-214633
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper Networks SRX Series Gateway IDPS must perform real-time monitoring of files from external sources at network entry/exit points.Real-time monitoring of files from external sources at network entry/exit points helps to detect covert malicious code before it is downloaded to or e...
V-214634
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper Networks SRX Series Gateway IDPS must drop packets or disconnect the connection when malicious code is detected.Configuring the IDPS to discard and/or redirect based on local organizational incident handling procedures minimizes the impact of this code on the ne...
V-214635
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper Networks SRX Series Gateway IDPS must send an immediate alert to, at a minimum, the Security Control Auditor (SCA) when malicious code is detected.Without an alert, security personnel may be unaware of an impending failure of the audit capability, and the ability to perform forensic analysis and ...
V-214636
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper Networks SRX Series Gateway IDPS must have only active Juniper Networks licenses.If the IDP or UTM licenses are allowed to lapse, the Juniper SRX IDPS can still inspect traffic and continue to use the outdated signature database fo...
V-214637
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper Networks SRX Series Gateway IDPS must either forward the traffic from inbound connections to be more deeply inspected for malicious code and Layer 7 threats, or the Antivirus and Unified Threat Management (UTM) license must be installed, active, and policies and rules configured.UTM is an industry term that was coined to define Layer 7 protection against client-side threats. This does not include IPS (which also has protection...