Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN Security Technical Implementation Guide

Overview

VersionDateFinding Count (28)Downloads
32024-12-20CAT I (High): 8CAT II (Medium): 20CAT 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.
ClassifiedPublicSensitive
I - Mission Critical ClassifiedI - Mission Critical PublicI - Mission Critical Sensitive
II - Mission Support ClassifiedII - Mission Support PublicII - Mission Support Sensitive
III - Administrative ClassifiedIII - Administrative PublicIII - Administrative Sensitive

Findings - MAC I - Mission Critical Public

Finding IDSeverityTitleDescription
V-214668
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN must limit the number of concurrent sessions for user accounts to one (1) and administrative accounts to three (3), or set to an organization-defined number.Network element management includes the ability to control the number of users and user sessions that utilize a network element. Limiting the number o...
V-214669
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN must renegotiate the IPsec security association after 8 hours or less.The IPsec SA and its corresponding key will expire either after the number of seconds or amount of traffic volume has exceeded the configured limit. A...
V-214670
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN must renegotiate the IKE security association after 24 hours or less.When a VPN gateway creates an IPsec Security Association (SA), resources must be allocated to maintain the SA. These resources are wasted during perio...
V-214671
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN device also fulfills the role of IDPS in the architecture, the device must inspect the VPN traffic in compliance with DoD IDPS requirements.Remote access devices, such as those providing remote access to network devices and information systems, which lack automated, capabilities increase r...
V-214675
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN must be configured to use IPsec with SHA256 or greater to negotiate hashing to protect the integrity of remote access sessions.Without strong cryptographic integrity protections, information can be altered by unauthorized users without detection. Remote access VPN provides a...
V-214676
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN must ensure inbound and outbound traffic is configured with a security policy in compliance with information flow control policies.Remote access devices, such as those providing remote access to network devices and information systems, which lack automated, capabilities increase r...
V-214678
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
If IDPS inspection is performed separately from the Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN device, the VPN must 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-214680
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN must specify Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS).PFS generates each new encryption key independently from the previous key. Without PFS, compromise of one key will compromise all communications. Th...
V-214681
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN must use Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) in tunnel mode.ESP provides confidentiality, data origin authentication, integrity, and anti-replay services within the IPsec suite of protocols. ESP in tunnel mode ...
V-214682
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway must disable or remove unnecessary network services and functions that are not used as part of its role in the architecture.Network devices are capable of providing a wide variety of functions (capabilities or processes) and services. Some of these functions and services ar...
V-214683
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN must use IKEv2 for IPsec VPN security associations.Use of IKEv2 leverages DoS protections because of improved bandwidth management and leverages more secure encryption algorithms....
V-214684
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN must be configured to prohibit or restrict the use of functions, ports, protocols, and/or services, as defined in the PPSM CAL and vulnerability assessments.In order to prevent unauthorized connection of devices, unauthorized transfer of information, or unauthorized tunneling (i.e., embedding of data types...
V-214685
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN must uniquely identify and authenticate organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of organizational users).To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, organizational users must be identified and authenticated to prevent potential misuse and...
V-214688
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN must uniquely identify and authenticate non-organizational users (or processes acting on behalf of non-organizational users).Lack of authentication and identification enables non-organizational users to gain access to the network or possibly a network element that provides o...
V-214689
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN must terminate all network connections associated with a communications session at the end of the session.Idle TCP sessions can be susceptible to unauthorized access and hijacking attacks. IKE Dead Peer Detection (DPD) is a protocol that verifies the avail...
V-214691
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN IKE must use NIST FIPS-validated cryptography to implement encryption services for unclassified VPN traffic.Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of using encryption to protect data. The network element must implement cryptogr...
V-214693
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN must only allow the use of DoD PKI established certificate authorities for verification of the establishment of protected sessions.Untrusted certificate authorities (CA) can issue certificates, but they may be issued by organizations or individuals that seek to compromise DoD syst...
V-214694
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN must only allow incoming VPN communications from organization-defined authorized sources routed to organization-defined authorized destinations.Unrestricted traffic may contain malicious traffic which poses a threat to an enclave or to other connected networks. Additionally, unrestricted traff...
V-214695
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN 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-214696
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN must use anti-replay mechanisms for security associations.Anti-replay is an IPsec security mechanism at a packet level which helps to avoid unwanted users from intercepting and modifying an ESP packet. The S...
V-214672
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN must use AES256 for the IPsec proposal to protect the confidentiality of remote access sessions.Without confidentiality protection mechanisms, unauthorized individuals may gain access to sensitive information via a remote access session. The Adva...
V-214673
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN must use AES256 encryption for the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) proposal to protect the confidentiality of remote access sessions.Without confidentiality protection mechanisms, unauthorized individuals may gain access to sensitive information via a remote access session. The Adva...
V-214674
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN must be configured to use Diffie-Hellman (DH) group 15 or higher.Use of an approved DH algorithm ensures the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) (phase 1) proposal uses FIPS-validated key management techniques and processes...
V-214677
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN must use Internet Key Exchange (IKE) for IPsec VPN Security Associations (SAs).Without IKE, the SPI is manually specified for each security association. IKE peers will negotiate the encryption algorithm and authentication or hash...
V-214679
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN must not accept certificates that have been revoked when using PKI for authentication.Situations may arise in which the certificate issued by a Certificate Authority (CA) may need to be revoked before the lifetime of the certificate exp...
V-214686
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN must use multifactor authentication (e.g., DoD PKI) for network access to non-privileged accounts.To assure accountability and prevent unauthenticated access, non-privileged users must utilize multifactor authentication to prevent potential misuse ...
V-214690
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN Internet Key Exchange (IKE) must be configured to use an approved Commercial Solution for Classified (CSfC) when transporting classified traffic across an unclassified network.Use of weak or untested encryption algorithms undermines the purposes of using encryption to protect data. The National Security Agency/Central Secur...
V-214692
LOWMEDIUMHIGH
The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN must configure Internet Key Exchange (IKE) with SHA1 or greater to protect the authenticity of communications sessions.Authenticity protection provides protection against man-in-the-middle attacks/session hijacking and the insertion of false information into sessions. ...