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Cisco IOS Switch RTR Security Technical Implementation Guide


Overview

Date Finding Count (60)
2021-03-19 CAT I (High): 4 CAT II (Med): 44 CAT III (Low): 12
STIG Description
This Security Technical Implementation Guide is published as a tool to improve the security of Department of Defense (DoD) information systems. The requirements are derived from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53 and related documents. Comments or proposed revisions to this document should be sent via email to the following address: disa.stig_spt@mail.mil.

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Findings (MAC I - Mission Critical Public)

Finding ID Severity Title
V-220440 High The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to deny network traffic by default and allow network traffic by exception.
V-220471 High The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to restrict it from accepting outbound IP packets that contain an illegitimate address in the source address field via egress filter or by enabling Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF).
V-220455 High The Cisco PE switch must be configured to block any traffic that is destined to the IP core infrastructure.
V-220429 High The Cisco switch must be configured to restrict traffic destined to itself.
V-237755 Medium The Cisco switch must not be configured to use IPv6 Site Local Unicast addresses.
V-220468 Medium The Cisco switch must be configured to implement message authentication for all control plane protocols.
V-220427 Medium The Cisco switch must not be configured to have any zero-touch deployment feature enabled when connected to an operational network.
V-220472 Medium The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block all packets with any IP options.
V-220473 Medium The Cisco PE switch must be configured to ignore or drop all packets with any IP options.
V-220470 Medium The Cisco switch must not be configured to have any feature enabled that calls home to the vendor.
V-220454 Medium The Cisco PE switch providing MPLS Layer 2 Virtual Private Network (L2VPN) services must be configured to authenticate targeted Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) sessions used to exchange virtual circuit (VC) information using a FIPS-approved message authentication code algorithm.
V-220456 Medium The Cisco PE switch must be configured with Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF) loose mode enabled on all CE-facing interfaces.
V-220451 Medium The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to have Proxy ARP disabled on all external interfaces.
V-220452 Medium The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block all outbound management traffic.
V-220453 Medium The Cisco switch must be configured to only permit management traffic that ingresses and egresses the out-of-band management (OOBM) interface.
V-220437 Medium The Cisco switch must be configured to produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred.
V-220434 Medium The Cisco switch must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) mask reply messages disabled on all external interfaces.
V-220435 Medium The Cisco switch must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirect messages disabled on all external interfaces.
V-220433 Medium The Cisco switch must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) unreachable messages disabled on all external interfaces.
V-220430 Medium The Cisco switch must be configured to drop all fragmented Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packets destined to itself.
V-220431 Medium The Cisco switch must be configured to have gratuitous ARP disabled on all external interfaces.
V-220419 Medium The Cisco switch must be configured to enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information within the network based on organization-defined information flow control policies.
V-237761 Medium The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to drop IPv6 undetermined transport packets.
V-220443 Medium The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block inbound packets with source Bogon IP address prefixes.
V-220438 Medium The Cisco switch must be configured to produce audit records containing information to establish the source of the events.
V-220428 Medium The Cisco switch must be configured to protect against or limit the effects of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by employing control plane protection.
V-237749 Medium The Cisco switch must be configured to have Cisco Express Forwarding enabled.
V-237763 Medium The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured drop IPv6 packets with a Routing Header type 0, 1, or 3-255.
V-237758 Medium The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to suppress Router Advertisements on all external IPv6-enabled interfaces.
V-220465 Medium The Cisco multicast Designated switch (DR) must be configured to filter the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Report messages to allow hosts to join a multicast group only from sources that have been approved by the organization.
V-220467 Medium The Cisco multicast Designated switch (DR) must be configured to set the shortest-path tree (SPT) threshold to infinity to minimalize source-group (S, G) state within the multicast topology where Any Source Multicast (ASM) is deployed.
V-220466 Medium The Cisco multicast Designated switch (DR) must be configured to limit the number of mroute states resulting from Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Host Membership Reports.
V-220461 Medium The Cisco multicast switch must be configured to disable Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) on all interfaces that are not required to support multicast routing.
V-220460 Medium The Cisco switch must be configured to enforce a Quality-of-Service (QoS) policy to limit the effects of packet flooding denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
V-220462 Medium The Cisco multicast switch must be configured to bind a Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) neighbor filter to interfaces that have PIM enabled.
V-220447 Medium The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to filter egress traffic at the internal interface on an inbound direction.
V-220446 Medium The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to filter ingress traffic at the external interface on an inbound direction.
V-220423 Medium The Cisco switch must be configured to authenticate all routing protocol messages using NIST-validated FIPS 198-1 message authentication code algorithm.
V-220422 Medium The Cisco switch must be configured to use encryption for routing protocol authentication.
V-220469 Medium The Cisco switch must be configured to use keys with a duration not exceeding 180 days for authenticating routing protocol messages.
V-220442 Medium The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to only allow incoming communications from authorized sources to be routed to authorized destinations.
V-220441 Medium The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information between interconnected networks in accordance with applicable policy.
V-237775 Medium The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing the NSAP address option within Destination Option header.
V-237777 Medium The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing a Hop-by-Hop or Destination Option extension header with an undefined option type.
V-237765 Medium The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing a Hop-by-Hop header with invalid option type values.
V-237771 Medium The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing a Destination Option header with invalid option type values.
V-220445 Medium The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to filter traffic destined to the enclave in accordance with the guidelines contained in DoD Instruction 8551.1.
V-237773 Medium The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing an extension header with the Endpoint Identification option.
V-237751 Low The Cisco switch must be configured to advertise a hop limit of at least 32 in Switch Advertisement messages for IPv6 stateless auto-configuration deployments.
V-220425 Low The Cisco switch must be configured to have all non-essential capabilities disabled.
V-220458 Low The Cisco PE switch must be configured to enforce a Quality-of-Service (QoS) policy in accordance with the QoS GIG Technical Profile.
V-220459 Low The Cisco P switch must be configured to implement a Quality-of-Service (QoS) policy in accordance with the QoS GIG Technical Profile.
V-220450 Low The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to have Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) disabled on all external interfaces.
V-220436 Low The Cisco switch must be configured to log all packets that have been dropped at interfaces via an access control list (ACL).
V-220432 Low The Cisco switch must be configured to have IP directed broadcast disabled on all interfaces.
V-220439 Low The Cisco switch must be configured to disable the auxiliary port unless it is connected to a secured modem providing encryption and authentication.
V-220464 Low The Cisco multicast Designated switch (DR) must be configured to filter the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Report messages to allow hosts to join only multicast groups that have been approved by the organization.
V-220449 Low The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to have Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) disabled on all external interfaces.
V-220424 Low The Cisco switch must be configured to have all inactive Layer 3 interfaces disabled.
V-220463 Low The Cisco multicast edge switch must be configured to establish boundaries for administratively scoped multicast traffic.