ARST-RT-000070 - The Arista Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to filter received source-active multicast advertisements for any undesirable multicast groups and sources.

Information

The interoperability of BGP extensions for interdomain multicast routing and MSDP enables seamless connectivity of multicast domains between autonomous systems. MP-BGP advertises the unicast prefixes of the multicast sources used by Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) routers to perform RPF checks and build multicast distribution trees. MSDP is a mechanism used to connect multiple PIM sparse-mode domains, allowing RPs from different domains to share information about active sources. When RPs in peering multicast domains hear about active sources, they can pass on that information to their local receivers, thereby allowing multicast data to be forwarded between the domains. Configuring an import policy to block multicast advertisements for reserved, martian, single-source multicast, and any other undesirable multicast groups, as well as any source-group (S, G) states with bogon source addresses, would assist in avoiding unwanted multicast traffic from traversing the core.

NOTE: Nessus has provided the target output to assist in reviewing the benchmark to ensure target compliance.

Solution

Step 1: Configure the Arista router to implement policy to filter multicast advertisements for undesirable multicast groups and sources.

router msdp
peer 10.1.12.2
sa-filter in PIM_NEIGHBOR_SA_FILTER

Step 2: Configure the source active access-list.

ip access-list PIM_NEIGHBOR_SA_FILTER
10 deny ip any 224.1.1.0/24
20 deny ip any 224.1.2.0/24
30 deny ip any 224.1.3.0/24
40 deny ip any 224.1.4.0/24
100 permit ip any any

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_Arista_MLS_EOS_4-2x_Y24M07_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL

References: 800-53|AC-4, CAT|III, CCI|CCI-001368, Rule-ID|SV-255993r882321_rule, STIG-ID|ARST-RT-000070, Vuln-ID|V-255993

Plugin: Arista

Control ID: e5f185b28cc2520cdaa07a6585e9f98f23b0e24bb4c4dc02f8465b28f075fd58