V-254029

Discussion

MSDP peering with customer network routers presents additional risks to the core, whether from a rogue or misconfigured MSDP-enabled router. MSDP password authentication is used to validate each segment sent on the TCP connection between MSDP peers, protecting the MSDP session against the threat of spoofed packets being injected into the TCP connection stream.

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Review the router configuration to determine if received MSDP packets are authenticated.

[edit protocols]
msdp {
    active-source-limit {
        maximum <1..1000000>;
        threshold <1..1000000>;
        log-warning <percent to log warning>;
    }
    <additional configuration>
    peer <address> {
        authentication-key "hashed PSK"; ## SECRET-DATA
    }
}

If the router does not require MSDP authentication, this is a finding.