Re: [secdir] SECDIR Review of draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications
"Eric Voit (evoit)" <evoit@cisco.com> Fri, 29 March 2019 20:28 UTC
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From: "Eric Voit (evoit)" <evoit@cisco.com>
To: Chris Lonvick <lonvick.ietf@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [secdir] SECDIR Review of draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications
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Hi Chris, I will make the two tweaks as you requested. Eric On Mar 29, 2019 3:51 PM, Chris Lonvick <lonvick.ietf@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Eric, On 3/26/19 8:35 AM, Eric Voit (evoit) wrote: Hi Chris, Thanks very much for the review and comments. Some thoughts in-line... From: Chris Lonvick <lonvick.ietf@gmail.com><mailto:lonvick.ietf@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2019 9:33 PM To: draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications.all@ietf.org<mailto:draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications.all@ietf.org>; secdir@ietf.org<mailto:secdir@ietf.org>; iesg@ietf.org<mailto:iesg@ietf.org> Subject: SECDIR Review of draft-ietf-netconf-subscribed-notifications Hello, I have reviewed this document as part of the security directorate's ongoing effort to review all IETF documents being processed by the IESG. These comments were written primarily for the benefit of the security area directors. Document editors and WG chairs should treat these comments just like any other last call comments. The summary of the review is Ready With Nits. This is not an area that I'm very familiar with so I skimmed the draft and reviewed the Security Considerations section. Overall, the document appears to be well constructed and well written. RFC 3552 (BCP 72) is very thorough, but kind'a long. So my succinct thought about a Security Considerations section is that it should describe threats to the protocol and/or the implementation, and either ways to thwart them, or state that some threats are beyond the scope of the threat model. While the authors of the ID have been thorough in the rest of the specification, they may have gone a bit outside what is needed for a Security Considerations section. Below are some comments that the authors may wish to consider. And it's OK with me if they disregard my comments as I think the document is Ready anyway. 5.4. Security Considerations CML>>> I'm not sure that the following paragraph is describing a threat or mitigation. While it is good information, perhaps it belongs elsewhere? Or, if there's a threat there, could it be specifically described? One subscription "id" can be used for two or more receivers of the same configured subscription. But due to the possibility of different access control permissions per receiver, it cannot be assumed that each receiver is getting identical updates. <eric> It is neither a threat, nor a mitigation. It is actually implementation guidance that different access control permissions for different configured receivers will result in a different experience for each receiver. If you think that this guidance is preferable within Section 5.2 "Implementation Considerations", we can move it there. CML>>> I think it would be better there. CML>>> In the following paragraph, I think you're describing a threat and a remedy tactic. Perhaps you could delineate them by adding, "To counter this," as the start to the second sentence. With configured subscriptions, one or more publishers could be used to overwhelm a receiver. Notification messages SHOULD NOT be sent to any receiver which does not support this specification. Receivers that do not want notification messages need only terminate or refuse any transport sessions from the publisher. <eric> This is a good suggestion. The proposed text has been added. CML>>> Again, I'm not sure that the following paragraph is describing a threat or a remedy. When a receiver of a configured subscription gets a new "subscription-started" message for a known subscription where it is already consuming events, the receiver SHOULD retrieve any event records generated since the last event record was received. This can be accomplish by establishing a separate dynamic replay subscription with the same filtering criteria with the publisher, assuming the publisher supports the "replay" feature. <eric> How about the following text to address your threat/remedy comment... CML>>> Very small changes to the below just for clarification. When a receiver of a configured subscription gets a new "subscription-started" message for a known subscription where it is already consuming events, it may indicate that an attacker has done something that has momentarily disrupted receiver connectivity. To acquire events lost during this interval, the receiver SHOULD retrieve any event records generated since the last event record was received. This can be accomplished by establishing a separate dynamic replay subscription with the same filtering criteria with the publisher, assuming the publisher supports the "replay" feature. Looks good. Best regards, Chris Eric The rest of the security considerations section is appropriately describing protections for data nodes that may be susceptible to misuse. Best regards, Chris
- [secdir] SECDIR Review of draft-ietf-netconf-subs… Chris Lonvick
- Re: [secdir] SECDIR Review of draft-ietf-netconf-… Eric Voit (evoit)
- Re: [secdir] SECDIR Review of draft-ietf-netconf-… Chris Lonvick
- Re: [secdir] SECDIR Review of draft-ietf-netconf-… Eric Voit (evoit)