Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN STIG Version Comparison

There are 8 differences between versions v2 r2 (Oct. 26, 2022) (the "left" version) and v3 r2 (Jan. 30, 2025) (the "right" version).

Check JUSX-VN-000020 was removed from the benchmark in the "right" version. The text below reflects the old wording.

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Title

The Juniper SRX Services Gateway VPN must use FIPS 140-2 compliant mechanisms for authentication to a cryptographic module.

Check Content

Verify IPsec is defined and configured using FIPS-complaint protocols. [edit] show security ipsec vpn If the IPSEC policy and VP are not configured to use FIPS 140-2 compliant mechanisms for authentication to a cryptographic module, this is a finding.

Discussion

Unapproved mechanisms that are used for authentication to the cryptographic module are not verified, and therefore cannot be relied upon to provide confidentiality or integrity and DoD data may be compromised. Network elements utilizing encryption are required to use FIPS compliant mechanisms for authenticating to cryptographic modules. FIPS 140-2 is the current standard for validating that mechanisms used to access cryptographic modules utilize authentication that meets DoD requirements.

Fix

After configuring the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) gateway and IPsec policy, the following commands configure an IPsec policy, enabling Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) using Diffie-Hellman group 14 and associating the IPsec proposal configured in the previous example. set security ipsec policy IPSEC-POLICY perfect-forward-secrecy keys group14 set security ipsec policy IPSEC-POLICY proposals IPSEC-PROPOSAL The following commands define an IPsec VPN using a secure tunnel interface, specifying the IKE gateway information, IPsec policy, and tunnel establishment policy. Alternatively, administrators can configure on-traffic tunnel establishment. [edit] set security ipsec vpn VPN bind-interface st0.0 set security ipsec vpn VPN ike gateway IKE-PEER set security ipsec vpn VPN ike ipsec-policy IPSEC-POLICY set security ipsec vpn VPN establish-tunnels immediately