The Dell OS10 Router must be configured to protect against or limit the effects of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by employing control plane protection.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-269886	SRG-NET-000362-RTR-000110	OS10-RTR-000610	SV-269886r1052435_rule	2024-12-11	1

Description
The Route Processor (RP) is critical to all network operations because it is the component used to build all forwarding paths for the data plane via control plane processes. It is also instrumental with ongoing network management functions that keep the routers and links available for providing network services. Any disruption to the RP or the control and management planes can result in mission-critical network outages. A DoS attack targeting the RP can result in excessive CPU and memory utilization. To maintain network stability and RP security, the router must be able to handle specific control plane and management plane traffic that is destined to the RP. In the past, one method of filtering was to use ingress filters on forwarding interfaces to filter both forwarding path and receiving path traffic. However, this method does not scale well as the number of interfaces and the size of the ingress filters grow. Control plane policing increases the security of routers and multilayer switches by protecting the RP from unnecessary or malicious traffic. Filtering and rate limiting the traffic flow of control plane packets can be implemented to protect routers against reconnaissance and DoS attacks, allowing the control plane to maintain packet forwarding and protocol states despite an attack or heavy load on the router or multilayer switch.

Description

The Route Processor (RP) is critical to all network operations because it is the component used to build all forwarding paths for the data plane via control plane processes. It is also instrumental with ongoing network management functions that keep the routers and links available for providing network services. Any disruption to the RP or the control and management planes can result in mission-critical network outages. A DoS attack targeting the RP can result in excessive CPU and memory utilization. To maintain network stability and RP security, the router must be able to handle specific control plane and management plane traffic that is destined to the RP. In the past, one method of filtering was to use ingress filters on forwarding interfaces to filter both forwarding path and receiving path traffic. However, this method does not scale well as the number of interfaces and the size of the ingress filters grow. Control plane policing increases the security of routers and multilayer switches by protecting the RP from unnecessary or malicious traffic. Filtering and rate limiting the traffic flow of control plane packets can be implemented to protect routers against reconnaissance and DoS attacks, allowing the control plane to maintain packet forwarding and protocol states despite an attack or heavy load on the router or multilayer switch.

ℹ️ Check
Determine whether control plane protection has been implemented on the device by verifying traffic types have been classified based on importance levels and a policy has been configured to filter and rate limit the traffic according to each class. Use the show control-plane info command to review the Control Plane Policing (CoPP) policies. OS10# show control-plane info Queue Min Rate Limit(in pps) Max Rate Limit(in pps) Protocols 0 600 600 ISCSI UNKNOWN UNICAST 1 1000 1000 OPEN_FLOW SFLOW 2 400 400 IGMP PIM 3 600 1000 VLT NDS 4 500 1000 IPV6_ICMP IPV4_ICMP 5 500 1000 ICMPV6_RS ICMPV6_NS ICMPV6_RA ICMPV6_NA 6 500 1000 ARP_REQ SERVICEABILITY 7 500 1000 ARP_RESP 8 500 500 SSH TELNET TACACS NTP FTP 9 600 600 FCOE NVME 10 600 1000 LACP 11 400 400 RSTP PVST MSTP 12 500 500 DOT1X LLDP FEFD 13 600 1000 IPV6_OSPF IPV4_OSPF 14 600 1000 OSPF_HELLO 15 600 1000 BGP 16 500 500 IPV6_DHCP IPV4_DHCP 17 600 1000 VRRP 18 700 700 BFD 19 1400 2000 REMOTE CPS 20 300 300 MCAST DATA 21 100 100 ACL LOGGING 22 300 300 MCAST KNOWN DATA 23 100 100 PTP 24 100 100 PORT_SECURITY OS10# Use the show running-configuration class-map and policy-map to review configured CoPP policies. OS10# show running-configuration class-map ! class-map type application class-iscsi ! class-map type control-plane example-copp-class-map-name OS10# OS10# show running-configuration policy-map ! policy-map type application policy-iscsi ! policy-map type control-plane example-copp-policy-map-name ! class example-copp-class-map-name set qos-group 2 police cir 100 pir 100 OS10# Use the show qos control-plane command to review whether custom CoPP policies have been configured. OS10# show qos control-plane Service-policy (input): example-copp-policy-map-name If the router does not have appropriate control plane protection implemented, this is a finding.

ℹ️ Check

Determine whether control plane protection has been implemented on the device by verifying traffic types have been classified based on importance levels and a policy has been configured to filter and rate limit the traffic according to each class. Use the show control-plane info command to review the Control Plane Policing (CoPP) policies. OS10# show control-plane info Queue Min Rate Limit(in pps) Max Rate Limit(in pps) Protocols 0 600 600 ISCSI UNKNOWN UNICAST 1 1000 1000 OPEN_FLOW SFLOW 2 400 400 IGMP PIM 3 600 1000 VLT NDS 4 500 1000 IPV6_ICMP IPV4_ICMP 5 500 1000 ICMPV6_RS ICMPV6_NS ICMPV6_RA ICMPV6_NA 6 500 1000 ARP_REQ SERVICEABILITY 7 500 1000 ARP_RESP 8 500 500 SSH TELNET TACACS NTP FTP 9 600 600 FCOE NVME 10 600 1000 LACP 11 400 400 RSTP PVST MSTP 12 500 500 DOT1X LLDP FEFD 13 600 1000 IPV6_OSPF IPV4_OSPF 14 600 1000 OSPF_HELLO 15 600 1000 BGP 16 500 500 IPV6_DHCP IPV4_DHCP 17 600 1000 VRRP 18 700 700 BFD 19 1400 2000 REMOTE CPS 20 300 300 MCAST DATA 21 100 100 ACL LOGGING 22 300 300 MCAST KNOWN DATA 23 100 100 PTP 24 100 100 PORT_SECURITY OS10# Use the show running-configuration class-map and policy-map to review configured CoPP policies. OS10# show running-configuration class-map ! class-map type application class-iscsi ! class-map type control-plane example-copp-class-map-name OS10# OS10# show running-configuration policy-map ! policy-map type application policy-iscsi ! policy-map type control-plane example-copp-policy-map-name ! class example-copp-class-map-name set qos-group 2 police cir 100 pir 100 OS10# Use the show qos control-plane command to review whether custom CoPP policies have been configured. OS10# show qos control-plane Service-policy (input): example-copp-policy-map-name If the router does not have appropriate control plane protection implemented, this is a finding.

✔️ Fix
Implement control plane protection by classifying traffic types based on importance and configure filters to restrict and rate limit the traffic directed to and processed by the RP according to each class. Step 1: Create an appropriate QoS policy for CoPP. OS10(config)# class-map type control-plane example-copp-class-map-name OS10(config-cmap-control-plane)# exit OS10(config)# policy-map type control-plane example-copp-policy-map-name OS10(config-pmap-control-plane)# class example-copp-class-map-name OS10(config-pmap-c)# set qos-group 2 OS10(config-pmap-c)# police cir 100 pir 100 Step 2: Assign the control-plane service-policy. OS10(config)# control-plane OS10(conf-control-plane)# service-policy input example-copp-policy-map-name

✔️ Fix

Implement control plane protection by classifying traffic types based on importance and configure filters to restrict and rate limit the traffic directed to and processed by the RP according to each class. Step 1: Create an appropriate QoS policy for CoPP. OS10(config)# class-map type control-plane example-copp-class-map-name OS10(config-cmap-control-plane)# exit OS10(config)# policy-map type control-plane example-copp-policy-map-name OS10(config-pmap-control-plane)# class example-copp-class-map-name OS10(config-pmap-c)# set qos-group 2 OS10(config-pmap-c)# police cir 100 pir 100 Step 2: Assign the control-plane service-policy. OS10(config)# control-plane OS10(conf-control-plane)# service-policy input example-copp-policy-map-name