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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                       H. MoustafaRequest for Comments: 5713                                France TelecomCategory: Informational                                    H. TschofenigISSN: 2070-1721                                   Nokia Siemens Networks                                                           S. De Cnodder                                                          Alcatel-Lucent                                                            January 2010Security Threats and Security Requirements for theAccess Node Control Protocol (ANCP)Abstract   The Access Node Control Protocol (ANCP) aims to communicate Quality   of Service (QoS)-related, service-related, and subscriber-related   configurations and operations between a Network Access Server (NAS)   and an Access Node (e.g., a Digital Subscriber Line Access   Multiplexer (DSLAM)).  The main goal of this protocol is to allow the   NAS to configure, manage, and control access equipment, including the   ability for the Access Nodes to report information to the NAS.   This present document investigates security threats that all ANCP   nodes could encounter.  This document develops a threat model for   ANCP security, with the aim of deciding which security functions are   required.  Based on this, security requirements regarding the Access   Node Control Protocol are defined.Status of This Memo   This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is   published for informational purposes.   This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force   (IETF).  It represents the consensus of the IETF community.  It has   received public review and has been approved for publication by the   Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).  Not all documents   approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet   Standard; seeSection 2 of RFC 5741.   Information about the current status of this document, any errata,   and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained athttp://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5713.Moustafa, et al.             Informational                      [Page 1]

RFC 5713                      ANCP Threats                  January 2010Copyright Notice   Copyright (c) 2010 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the   document authors.  All rights reserved.   This document is subject toBCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal   Provisions Relating to IETF Documents   (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of   publication of this document.  Please review these documents   carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect   to this document.  Code Components extracted from this document must   include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of   the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as   described in the Simplified BSD License.Table of Contents1. Introduction ....................................................32. Specification Requirements ......................................33. System Overview and Threat Model ................................44. Objectives of Attackers .........................................75. Potential Attacks ...............................................75.1. Denial of Service (DoS) ....................................75.2. Integrity Violation ........................................85.3. Downgrading ................................................85.4. Traffic Analysis ...........................................85.5. Management Attacks .........................................86. Attack Forms ....................................................97. Attacks against ANCP ...........................................107.1. Dynamic Access-Loop Attributes ............................117.2. Access-Loop Configuration .................................127.3. Remote Connectivity Test ..................................147.4. Multicast .................................................148. Security Requirements ..........................................169. Security Considerations ........................................1610. Acknowledgments ...............................................1711. References ....................................................1711.1. Normative References .....................................1711.2. Informative References ...................................17Moustafa, et al.             Informational                      [Page 2]

RFC 5713                      ANCP Threats                  January 20101.  Introduction   The Access Node Control Protocol (ANCP) aims to communicate QoS-   related, service-related, and subscriber-related configurations and   operations between a Network Access Server (NAS) and an Access Node   (e.g., a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM)).   [ANCP-FRAME] illustrates the framework, usage scenarios, and general   requirements for ANCP.  This document focuses on describing security   threats and deriving security requirements for the Access Node   Control Protocol, considering the ANCP use cases defined in   [ANCP-FRAME] as well as the guidelines for IETF protocols' security   requirements given in [RFC3365].Section 5 andSection 6,   respectively, describe the potential attacks and the different attack   forms that are liable to take place within ANCP, whileSection 7   applies the described potential attacks to ANCP and its different use   cases.  Security policy negotiation, including authentication and   authorization to define the per-subscriber policy at the policy/AAA   (Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting) server, is out of the   scope of this work.  As a high-level summary, the following aspects   need to be considered:   Message Protection:      Signaling message content can be protected against eavesdropping,      modification, injection, and replay while in transit.  This      applies to both ANCP headers and payloads.   Prevention against Impersonation:      It is important that protection be available against a device      impersonating an ANCP node (i.e., an unauthorized device      generating an ANCP message and pretending it was generated by a      valid ANCP node).   Prevention of Denial-of-Service Attacks:      ANCP nodes and the network have finite resources (state storage,      processing power, bandwidth).  It is important to protect against      exhaustion attacks on these resources and to prevent ANCP nodes      from being used to launch attacks on other network elements.2.  Specification Requirements   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this   document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119], with theMoustafa, et al.             Informational                      [Page 3]

RFC 5713                      ANCP Threats                  January 2010   qualification that, unless otherwise stated, they apply to the design   of the Access Node Control Protocol (ANCP), not its implementation or   application.   The relevant components are described inSection 3.3.  System Overview and Threat Model   As described in [ANCP-FRAME] and schematically shown in Figure 1, the   Access Node Control system consists of the following components:   Network Access Server (NAS):      A NAS provides access to a service (e.g., network access) and      operates as a client of the AAA protocol.  The AAA client is      responsible for passing authentication information to designated      AAA servers and then acting on the response that is returned.   Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) server:      A AAA server is responsible for authenticating users, authorizing      access to services, and returning authorization information      (including configuration parameters) back to the AAA client to      deliver service to the user.  As a consequence, service usage      accounting might be enabled and information about the user's      resource usage will be sent to the AAA server.   Access Node (AN):      The AN is a network device, usually located at a service provider      central office or street cabinet, that terminates access-loop      connections from subscribers.  In case the access loop is a      Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), this is often referred to as a DSL      Access Multiplexer (DSLAM).   Customer Premises Equipment (CPE):      A CPE is a device located inside a subscriber's premise that is      connected at the LAN side of the Home Gateway (HGW).   Home Gateway (HGW):      The HGW connects the different Customer Premises Equipments (CPEs)      to the Access Node and the access network.  In case of DSL, the      HGW is a DSL Network Termination (NT) that could either operate as      a layer 2 bridge or as a layer 3 router.  In the latter case, such      a device is also referred to as a Routing Gateway (RG).Moustafa, et al.             Informational                      [Page 4]

RFC 5713                      ANCP Threats                  January 2010   Aggregation Network:      The aggregation network provides traffic aggregation from multiple      ANs towards the NAS.  ATM or Ethernet transport technologies can      be used.   For the threat analysis, this document focuses on the ANCP   communication between the Access Node and the NAS.  However,   communications with the other components (such as HGW, CPE, and the   AAA server) play a role in the understanding of the system   architecture and of what triggers ANCP communications.  Note that the   NAS and the AN might belong to two different administrative realms.   The threat model and the security requirements in this document   consider this latter case.                                                             +--------+                                                             | AAA    |                                                             | Server |                                                             +--------+                                                                  |                                                                  |      +---+   +---+   +------+    +-----------+    +-----+   +--------+      |CPE|---|HGW|---|      |    |Aggregation|    |     |   |        |      +---+   +---+   |Access|    | Network   |    |     |   |Internet|                      | Node |----|           |----| NAS |---|   /    |      +---+   +---+   | (AN) |    |           |    |     |   |Regional|      |CPE|---|HGW|---|      |    |           |    |     |   |Network |      +---+   +---+   +------+    +-----------+    +-----+   +--------+                         Figure 1: System Overview   In the absence of an attack, the NAS receives configuration   information from the AAA server related to a CPE attempting to access   the network.  A number of parameters, including Quality of Service   information, need to be conveyed to the Access Node in order to   become effective.  The Access Node Control Protocol is executed   between the NAS and the AN to initiate control requests.  The AN   returns responses to these control requests and provides information   reports.   For this to happen, the following individual steps must occur:   o  The AN discovers the NAS.   o  The AN needs to start the protocol communication with the NAS to      announce its presence.Moustafa, et al.             Informational                      [Page 5]

RFC 5713                      ANCP Threats                  January 2010   o  The AN and the NAS perform a capability exchange.   o  The NAS sends requests to the AN.   o  The AN processes these requests, authorizes the actions, and      responds with the appropriate answer.  In order to fulfill the      commands, it might be necessary for the AN to communicate with the      HGW or other nodes, for example, as part of a keep-alive      mechanism.   o  The AN provides status reports to the NAS.   Attackers can be:   o  off-path, i.e., they cannot see the messages exchanged between the      AN and the NAS;   o  on-path, i.e., they can see the messages exchanged between the AN      and the NAS.   Both off-path and on-path attackers can be:   o  passive, i.e., they do not participate in the network operation      but rather listen to all transfers to obtain the maximum possible      information;   o  active, i.e., they participate in the network operation and can      inject falsified packets.   We assume the following threat model:   o  An off-path adversary located at the CPE or the HGW.   o  An off-path adversary located on the Internet or a regional      network that connects one or more NASes and associated access      networks to Network Service Providers (NSPs) and Application      Service Providers (ASPs).   o  An on-path adversary located at network elements between the AN      and the NAS.   o  An on-path adversary taking control over the NAS.   o  An on-path adversary taking control over the AN.Moustafa, et al.             Informational                      [Page 6]

RFC 5713                      ANCP Threats                  January 20104.  Objectives of Attackers   Attackers may direct their efforts either against an individual   entity or against a large portion of the access network.  Attacks   fall into three classes:   o  Attacks to disrupt the communication for individual customers.   o  Attacks to disrupt the communication of a large fraction of      customers in an access network.  These also include attacks to the      network itself or a portion of it, such as attacks to disrupt the      network services or attacks to destruct the network functioning.   o  Attacks to gain profit for the attacker through modifying the QoS      settings.  Also, through replaying old packets (of another      privileged client, for instance), an attacker can attempt to      configure a better QoS profile on its own DSL line, increasing its      own benefit.5.  Potential Attacks   This section discusses the different types of attacks against ANCP,   whileSection 6 describes the possible means of their occurrence.   ANCP is mainly susceptible to the following types of attacks:5.1.  Denial of Service (DoS)   A number of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks can cause ANCP nodes to   malfunction.  When state is established or certain functions are   performed without requiring prior authorization, there is a chance to   mount denial-of-service attacks.  An adversary can utilize this fact   to transmit a large number of signaling messages to allocate state at   nodes and to cause consumption of resources.  Also, an adversary,   through DoS, can prevent certain subscribers from accessing certain   services.  Moreover, DoS can take place at the AN or the NAS   themselves, where it is possible for the NAS (or the AN) to   intentionally ignore the requests received from the AN (or the NAS)   through not replying to them.  This causes the sender of the request   to retransmit the request, which might allocate additional state at   the sender side to process the reply.  Allocating more state may   result in memory depletion.Moustafa, et al.             Informational                      [Page 7]

RFC 5713                      ANCP Threats                  January 20105.2.  Integrity Violation   Adversaries gaining illegitimate access on the transferred messages   can act on these messages, causing integrity violation.  Integrity   violation can cause unexpected network behavior, leading to a   disturbance in the network services as well as in the network   functioning.5.3.  Downgrading   Protocols may be useful in a variety of scenarios with different   security and functional requirements.  Different parts of a network   (e.g., within a building, across a public carrier's network, or over   a private microwave link) may need different levels of protection.   It is often difficult to meet these (sometimes conflicting)   requirements with a single mechanism or fixed set of parameters;   thus, often a selection of mechanisms and parameters is offered.  A   protocol is required to agree on certain (security) mechanisms and   parameters.  An insecure parameter exchange or security negotiation   protocol can give an adversary the opportunity to mount a downgrading   attack to force selection of mechanisms weaker than those mutually   desired.  Thus, without binding the negotiation process to the   legitimate parties and protecting it, ANCP might only be as secure as   the weakest mechanism provided (e.g., weak authentication) and the   benefits of defining configuration parameters and a negotiation   protocol are lost.5.4.  Traffic Analysis   An adversary can be placed at the NAS, the AN, or any other network   element capturing all traversing packets.  Adversaries can thus have   unauthorized information access.  As well, they can gather   information relevant to the network and then use this information in   gaining later unauthorized access.  This attack can also help   adversaries in other malicious purposes -- for example, capturing   messages sent from the AN to the NAS announcing that a DSL line is up   and containing some information related to the connected client.   This could be any form of information about the client and could also   be an indicator of whether or not the DSL subscriber is at home at a   particular moment.5.5.  Management Attacks   Since the ANCP sessions are configured in the AN and not in the NAS   [ANCP-FRAME], most configurations of ANCP are done in the AN.   Consequently, the management attacks to ANCP mainly concern the AN   configuration phase.  In this context, the AN MIB module could create   disclosure- and misconfiguration-related attacks.  [ANCP-MIB] definesMoustafa, et al.             Informational                      [Page 8]

RFC 5713                      ANCP Threats                  January 2010   the vulnerabilities on the management objects within the AN MIB   module.  These attacks mainly concern the unauthorized changes of the   management objects, leading to a number of attacks such as session   deletion, a session using an undesired/unsupported protocol,   disabling certain ANCP capabilities or enabling undesired   capabilities, ANCP packets being sent out to the wrong interface (and   thus being received by an unintended receiver), harming the   synchronization between the AN and the NAS, and impacting traffic in   the network other than ANCP.6.  Attack Forms   The attacks mentioned above inSection 5 can be carried out through   the following means:   Message Replay:      This threat scenario covers the case in which an adversary      eavesdrops, collects signaling messages, and replays them at a      later time (or at a different place or in a different way; e.g.,      cut-and-paste attacks).  Through replaying signaling messages, an      adversary might mount denial-of-service and theft-of-service      attacks.   Faked Message Injection:      An adversary may be able to inject false error or response      messages, causing unexpected protocol behavior and succeeding with      a DoS attack.  This could be achieved at the signaling-protocol      level, at the level of specific signaling parameters (e.g., QoS      information), or at the transport layer.  An adversary might, for      example, inject a signaling message to request allocation of QoS      resources.  As a consequence, other users' traffic might be      impacted.  The discovery protocol, especially, exhibits      vulnerabilities with regard to this threat scenario.   Messages Modification:      This involves integrity violation, where an adversary can modify      signaling messages in order to cause unexpected network behavior.      Possible related actions an adversary might consider for its      attack are the reordering and delaying of messages, causing a      protocol's process failure.Moustafa, et al.             Informational                      [Page 9]

RFC 5713                      ANCP Threats                  January 2010   Man-in-the-Middle:      An adversary might claim to be a NAS or an AN, acting as a man-in-      the-middle to later cause communication and services disruption.      The consequence can range from DoS to fraud.  An adversary acting      as a man-in-the-middle could modify the intercepted messages,      causing integrity violation, or could drop or truncate the      intercepted messages, causing DoS and a protocol's process      failure.  In addition, a man-in-the-middle adversary can signal      information to an illegitimate entity in place of the right      destination.  In this case, the protocol could appear to continue      working correctly.  This may result in an AN contacting a wrong      NAS.  For the AN, this could mean that the protocol failed for      unknown reasons.  A man-in-the-middle adversary can also cause      downgrading attacks through initiating faked configuration      parameters and through forcing selection of weak security      parameters or mechanisms.   Eavesdropping:      This is related to adversaries that are able to eavesdrop on      transferred messages.  The collection of the transferred packets      by an adversary may allow traffic analysis or be used later to      mount replay attacks.  The eavesdropper might learn QoS      parameters, communication patterns, policy rules for firewall      traversal, policy information, application identifiers, user      identities, NAT bindings, authorization objects, network      configuration, performance information, and more.7.  Attacks against ANCP   ANCP is susceptible to security threats, causing disruption/   unauthorized access to network services, manipulation of the   transferred data, and interference with network functions.  Based on   the threat model given inSection 3 and the potential attacks   presented inSection 5, this section describes the possible attacks   against ANCP, considering the four use cases defined in [ANCP-FRAME].   Although ANCP is not involved in the communication between the NAS   and the AAA/policy server, the secure communication between the NAS   and the AAA/policy server is important for ANCP security.   Consequently, this document considers the attacks that are related to   the ANCP operation associated with the communication between the NAS   and the AAA/Policy server.  In other words, the threat model and   security requirements in this document take into consideration the   data transfer between the NAS and the AAA server, when this data is   used within the ANCP operation.Moustafa, et al.             Informational                     [Page 10]

RFC 5713                      ANCP Threats                  January 2010   Besides the attacks against the four ANCP use cases described in the   following subsections, ANCP is susceptible to a number of attacks   that can take place during the protocol-establishment phase.  These   attacks are mainly on-path attacks, taking the form of DoS or man-in-   the-middle attacks, which could be as follows:   o  Attacks during the session initiation from the AN to the NAS:      DoS attacks could take place affecting the session-establishment      process.  Also, man-in-the-middle attacks could take place,      causing message truncation or message modification and leading to      session-establishment failure.   o  Attacks during the peering establishment:      DoS attacks could take place during state synchronization between      the AN and the NAS.  Also, man-in-the-middle attacks could take      place through message modification during identity discovery,      which may lead to loss of contact between the AN and the NAS.   o  Attacks during capabilities negotiation:      Message replay could take place, leading to DoS.  Also, man-in-      the-middle attacks could take place, leading to message      modification, message truncation, or downgrading through      advertising lesser capabilities.7.1.  Dynamic Access-Loop Attributes   This use case concerns the communication of access-loop attributes   for dynamic, access-line topology discovery.  Since the access-loop   rate may change over time, advertisement is beneficial to the NAS to   gain knowledge about the topology of the access network for QoS   scheduling.  Besides data rates and access-loop links identification,   other information may also be transferred from the AN to the NAS   (examples in case of a DSL access loop are DSL type, maximum   achievable data rate, and maximum data rate configured for the access   loop).  This use case is thus vulnerable to a number of on-path and   off-path attacks that can be either active or passive.   On-path attacks can take place between the AN and the NAS, on the AN   or on the NAS, during the access-loop attributes transfer.  These   attacks may be:   o  Active, acting on the transferred attributes and injecting      falsified packets.  The main attacks here are:      *  Man-in-the-middle attacks can cause access-loop attributes         transfer between the AN and a forged NAS or a forged AN and the         NAS, which can directly cause faked attributes and message         modification or truncation.Moustafa, et al.             Informational                     [Page 11]

RFC 5713                      ANCP Threats                  January 2010      *  Signaling replay, by an attacker between the AN and the NAS, on         the AN or on the NAS itself, causing DoS.      *  An adversary acting as man-in-the-middle can cause downgrading         through changing the actual data rate of the access loop, which         impacts the downstream shaping from the NAS.   o  Passive, only learning these attributes.  The main attacks here      are caused by:      *  Eavesdropping through learning access-loop attributes and         information about the clients' connection state, and thus         impacting their privacy protection.      *  Traffic analysis allowing unauthorized information access,         which could allow later unauthorized access to the NAS.   Off-path attacks can take place on the Internet, affecting the   access-loop attribute sharing between the NAS and the AAA/policy   server.  These attacks may be:   o  Active attacks, which are mainly concerning:      *  DoS through flooding the communication links to the AAA/policy         server, causing service disruption.      *  Man-in-the-middle, causing access-loop configuration retrieval         by an illegitimate NAS.   o  Passive attacks, gaining information on the access-loop      attributes.  The main attacks in this case are:      *  Eavesdropping through learning access-loop attributes and         learning information about the clients' connection states, and         thus impacting their privacy protection.      *  Traffic analysis allowing unauthorized information access,         which could allow later unauthorized access to the NAS.7.2.  Access-Loop Configuration   This use case concerns the dynamic, local-loop line configuration   through allowing the NAS to change the access-loop parameters (e.g.,   rate) in a dynamic fashion.  This allows for centralized, subscriber-   related service data.  This dynamic configuration can be achieved,   for instance, through profiles that are pre-configured on ANs.  This   use case is vulnerable to a number of on-path and off-path attacks.Moustafa, et al.             Informational                     [Page 12]

RFC 5713                      ANCP Threats                  January 2010   On-path attacks can take place where the attacker is between the AN   and the NAS, is on the AN, or is on the NAS.  These can be as   follows:   o  Active attacks, taking the following forms:      *  DoS attacks of the AN can take place by an attacker, through         replaying the Configure Request messages.      *  An attacker on the AN can prevent the AN from reacting on the         NAS request for the access-loop configuration, leading to the         NAS continually sending the Configure Request message and,         hence, allocating additional states.      *  Damaging clients' profiles at ANs can take place by adversaries         that gained control on the network through discovery of users'         information from a previous traffic analysis.      *  An adversary can replay old packets, modify messages, or inject         faked messages.  Such adversary can also be a man-in-the-         middle.  These attack forms can be related to a privileged         client profile (having more services) in order to configure         this profile on the adversary's own DSL line, which is less         privileged.  In order that the attacker does not expose its         identity, he may also use these attack forms related to the         privileged client profile to configure a number of illegitimate         DSL lines.  The adversary can also force configuration         parameters other than the selected ones, leading to, for         instance, downgrading the service for a privileged client.   o  Passive attacks, where the attacker listens to the ANCP messages.      This can take place as follows:      *  Learning configuration attributes is possible during the update         of the access-loop configuration.  An adversary might profit to         see the configuration that someone else gets (e.g., one ISP         might be interested to know what the customers of another ISP         get and therefore might break into the AN to see this).   Off-path attacks can take place as follows:   o  An off-path passive adversary on the Internet can exert      eavesdropping during the access-loop configuration retrieval by      the NAS from the AAA/policy server.Moustafa, et al.             Informational                     [Page 13]

RFC 5713                      ANCP Threats                  January 2010   o  An off-path active adversary on the Internet can threaten the      centralized subscribers-related service data in the AAA/policy      server through, for instance, making subscribers' records      inaccessible.7.3.  Remote Connectivity Test   In this use case, the NAS can carry out a Remote Connectivity Test   using ANCP to initiate an access-loop test between the AN and the   HGW.  Thus, multiple access-loop technologies can be supported.  This   use case is vulnerable to a number of active attacks.  Most of the   attacks in this use case concern the network operation.   On-path active attacks can take place in the following forms:   o  Man-in-the-middle attack during the NAS's triggering to the AN to      carry out the test, where an adversary can inject falsified      signals or can truncate the triggering.   o  Message modification can take place during the Subscriber Response      message transfer from the AN to the NAS announcing the test      results, causing failure of the test operation.   o  An adversary on the AN can prevent the AN from sending the      Subscriber Response message to the NAS announcing the test      results, and hence the NAS will continue triggering the AN to      carry out the test, which results in more state being allocated at      the NAS.  This may result in unavailability of the NAS to the ANs.   Off-path active attacks can take place as follows:   o  An adversary can cause DoS during the access-loop test, in case of      an ATM-based access loop, when the AN generates loopback cells.      This can take place through signal replaying.   o  Message truncating can take place by an adversary during the      access-loop test, which can lead to service disruption due to      assumption of test failures.7.4.  Multicast   In this use case, ANCP could be used in exchanging information   between the AN and the NAS, allowing the AN to perform replication   inline with the policy and configuration of the subscriber.  Also,   this allows the NAS to follow subscribers' multicast (source, group)   membership and control replication performed by the AN.  Four   multicast use cases are expected to take place, making use of ANCP;   these are typically multicast conditional access, multicast admissionMoustafa, et al.             Informational                     [Page 14]

RFC 5713                      ANCP Threats                  January 2010   control, multicast accounting, and spontaneous admission response.   This section gives a high-level description of the possible attacks   that can take place in these cases.  Attacks that can occur are   mostly active attacks.   On-path active attacks can be as follows:   o  DoS attacks, causing inability for certain subscribers to access      particular multicast streams or only access the multicast stream      at a reduced bandwidth, impacting the quality of the possible      video stream.  This can take place through message replay by an      attacker between the AN and the NAS, on the AN or on the NAS.      Such DoS attacks can also be done by tempering, for instance, with      white/black list configuration or by placing attacks to the      bandwidth-admission-control mechanism.   o  An adversary on the NAS can prevent the NAS from reacting on the      AN requests for white/black/grey lists or for admission control      for the access line.  The AN in this case would not receive a      reply and would continue sending its requests, resulting in more      states being allocated at the AN.  A similar case happens for      admission control when the NAS can also send requests to the AN.      When the NAS does not receive a response, it could also retransmit      requests, resulting in more state being allocated at the NAS side      to process responses.  This may result in the unavailability of      the NAS to the ANs.   o  Man-in-the-middle, causing the exchange of messages between the AN      and a forged NAS or a forged AN and the NAS.  This can lead to the      following:      *  Message modification, which can cause service downgrading for         legitimate subscribers -- for instance, an illegitimate change         of a subscriber's policy.      *  Message truncation between the AN and the NAS, which can result         in the non-continuity of services.      *  Message replay between the AN and the NAS, on the AN or on the         NAS, leading to a DoS or services fraud.      *  Message modification to temper with accounting information, for         example, in order to avoid service charges or, conversely, in         order to artificially increase service charges on other users.Moustafa, et al.             Informational                     [Page 15]

RFC 5713                      ANCP Threats                  January 2010   An off-path active attack is as follows:   o  DoS could take place through message replay of join/leave requests      by the HGW or CPE, frequently triggering the ANCP activity between      the AN and the NAS.  DoS could also result from generating heaps      of IGMP join/leaves by the HGW or CPE, leading to very high rate      of ANCP query/response.8.  Security Requirements   This section presents a number of requirements motivated by the   different types of attacks defined in the previous section.  These   requirements are as follows:   o  The protocol solution MUST offer authentication of the AN to the      NAS.   o  The protocol solution MUST offer authentication of the NAS to the      AN.   o  The protocol solution MUST allow authorization to take place at      the NAS and the AN.   o  The protocol solution MUST offer replay protection.   o  The protocol solution MUST provide data-origin authentication.   o  The protocol solution MUST be robust against denial-of-service      (DoS) attacks.  In this context, the protocol solution MUST      consider a specific mechanism for the DoS that the user might      create by sending many IGMP messages.   o  The protocol solution SHOULD offer confidentiality protection.   o  The protocol solution SHOULD ensure that operations in default      configuration guarantees a low number of AN/NAS protocol      interactions.   o  The protocol solution SHOULD ensure the access control of the      management objects and possibly encrypt the values of these      objects when sending them over the networks.9.  Security Considerations   This document focuses on security threats, deriving a threat model   for ANCP and presenting the security requirements to be considered   for the design of ANCP.Moustafa, et al.             Informational                     [Page 16]

RFC 5713                      ANCP Threats                  January 201010.  Acknowledgments   Many thanks go to Francois Le Faucher for reviewing this document and   for all his useful comments.  The authors would also like to thank   Philippe Niger, Curtis Sherbo, and Michael Busser for reviewing this   document.  Other thanks go to Bharat Joshi, Mark Townsley, Wojciech   Dec, and Kim Hylgaard who have had valuable comments during the   development of this work.11.  References11.1.  Normative References   [RFC2119]     Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate                 Requirement Levels",BCP 14,RFC 2119, March 1997.   [RFC3365]     Schiller, J., "Strong Security Requirements for                 Internet Engineering Task Force Standard Protocols",BCP 61,RFC 3365, August 2002.11.2.  Informative References   [ANCP-FRAME]  Ooghe, S., Voigt, N., Platnic, M., Haag, T., and S.                 Wadhwa, "Framework and Requirements for an Access Node                 Control Mechanism in Broadband  Multi-Service                 Networks", Work in Progress, October 2009.   [ANCP-MIB]    De Cnodder, S. and M. Morgenstern, "Access Node Control                 Protocol (ANCP) MIB module for Access Nodes", Work                 in Progress, July 2009.Moustafa, et al.             Informational                     [Page 17]

RFC 5713                      ANCP Threats                  January 2010Authors' Addresses   Hassnaa Moustafa   France Telecom   38-40 rue du General Leclerc   Issy Les Moulineaux,   92794 Cedex 9   France   EMail: hassnaa.moustafa@orange-ftgroup.com   Hannes Tschofenig   Nokia Siemens Networks   Linnoitustie 6   Espoo  02600   Finland   Phone: +358 (50) 4871445   EMail: Hannes.Tschofenig@gmx.net   URI:http://www.tschofenig.priv.at   Stefaan De Cnodder   Alcatel-Lucent   Copernicuslaan 50   B-2018 Antwerp,   Belgium   Phone: +32 3 240 85 15   EMail: stefaan.de_cnodder@alcatel-lucent.comMoustafa, et al.             Informational                     [Page 18]

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