Re: [netmod] Roman Danyliw's Discuss on draft-ietf-netmod-factory-default-14: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

["Rob Wilton (rwilton)" <[e-mail]>]

Hi Qin,

This document was discussed today.  I think that Roman plans to follow up regarding the security considerations discuss.

From the discussion today, and reading the Discuss, my understanding is that Roman has two concerns that are more about the specific text than the use of the template:

1) Concerns read access to the factory-default datastore which could contain sensitive information.  Perhaps read access to that datastore should default to nacm:default-deny-all?  If so, then this should probably be documented in section 3, with a sentence in section 6 to explain that is how it is protected.

2) The second point is asking to expand this paragraph:

   The operational disruption caused by setting the config to factory
   default contents varies greatly depending on the implementation and
   current config.

Such that the description also covers "Please note that a default configuration could be insecure or not have security controls enabled whereby exposing the network to compromise."

I see that you are already addressing the other comments that have been raised.

Regards,
Rob


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> DISCUSS:
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> Please use YANG security considerations template from
> https://trac.ietf.org/trac/ops/wiki/yang-security-guidelines.
> Specifically (as a DISCUSS item):
> 
> ** (Per the template questions “for all YANG modules you must evaluate
> whether any readable data”) Would factory-default contain any sensitive
> information in certain network environments where the ACLs should be more
> restrictive that world readable for everyone?
> [Qin]: It does follows yang-security-guidelines but there is no readable
> data node defined within rpc, that's why we don't use third paragraph
> boilerplate and fourth paragraph boilerplate of yang-security-guidelines.
> YANG-security-guidelines are more applicable to YANG data model with more
> readable/writable data nodes.
> In addition, as clarified in the second paragraph, section 6 of this
> draft, NACM can be used to restrict access for particular NETCONF or
> RESTCONF users to a preconfigured subset of all available NETCONF or
> RESTCONF protocol operations (i.e., factory-reset rpc)
> 
> Per “The operational disruption caused by setting the config to factory
> default contents varies greatly depending on the implementation and
> current config”, it seems like it could be worse than just an operational
> disruption.  Please note that a default configuration could be insecure or
> not have security controls enabled whereby exposing the network to
> compromise.
> 
> [Qin]: As described in the second paragraph of section 6 it by default
> restrict access for everyone by using the "default-deny-all" access
> control defined [RFC8341], what else does it need to address this security
> concern?
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> COMMENT:
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> 
> Please use YANG security considerations template from
> https://trac.ietf.org/trac/ops/wiki/yang-security-guidelines.
> Specifically (as a COMMENT item):
> 
> ** Add “The Network Configuration Access Control Model (NACM) [RFC8341]
> provides the means to …”
> 
> [Qin]: We did follow this template, I am wondering how it is different
> from the second paragraph of section 6? I see they are equivalent but with
> more fine granularity security measures, if my understanding is correct.