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Cisco IOS XR Router RTR Security Technical Implementation Guide


Overview

Date Finding Count (96)
2023-09-18 CAT I (High): 10 CAT II (Med): 57 CAT III (Low): 29
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 III - Administrative Sensitive)

Finding ID Severity Title
V-217005 High The Cisco perimeter router 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-216752 High The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to deny network traffic by default and allow network traffic by exception.
V-216756 High The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to protect an enclave connected to an alternate gateway by using an inbound filter that only permits packets with destination addresses within the sites address space.
V-216757 High The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to not be a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) peer to an alternate gateway service provider.
V-216743 High The Cisco router must be configured to restrict traffic destined to itself.
V-216801 High The Cisco PE router must be configured to block any traffic that is destined to IP core infrastructure.
V-216796 High The Cisco PE router providing Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) must be configured to have all attachment circuits defined to the virtual forwarding instance (VFI) with the globally unique VPN ID assigned for each customer VLAN.
V-216795 High The Cisco PE router providing MPLS Virtual Private Wire Service (VPWS) must be configured to have the appropriate pseudowire ID for each attachment circuit.
V-216792 High The Cisco PE router must be configured to have each Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) instance with the appropriate Route Target (RT).
V-216791 High The Cisco PE router must be configured to have each Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) instance bound to the appropriate physical or logical interfaces to maintain traffic separation between all MPLS L3VPNs.
V-216781 Medium The Cisco BGP router must be configured to reject outbound route advertisements for any prefixes belonging to the IP core.
V-216780 Medium The Cisco BGP router must be configured to reject outbound route advertisements for any prefixes that do not belong to any customers or the local autonomous system (AS).
V-216784 Medium The Cisco BGP router must be configured to use the maximum prefixes feature to protect against route table flooding and prefix de-aggregation attacks.
V-230037 Medium The Cisco router must be configured to have Cisco Express Forwarding enabled.
V-216774 Medium The Cisco router providing connectivity to the Network Operations Center (NOC) must be configured to forward all in-band management traffic via an IPsec tunnel.
V-216777 Medium The Cisco BGP router must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements for any Bogon prefixes.
V-216770 Medium The Cisco out-of-band management (OOBM) gateway router must be configured to have separate IGP instances for the managed network and management network.
V-216771 Medium The Cisco out-of-band management (OOBM) gateway router must be configured to not redistribute routes between the management network routing domain and the managed network routing domain.
V-216772 Medium The Cisco out-of-band management (OOBM) gateway router must be configured to block any traffic destined to itself that is not sourced from the OOBM network or the Network Operations Center (NOC).
V-216773 Medium The Cisco router must be configured to only permit management traffic that ingresses and egresses the out-of-band management (OOBM) interface.
V-216778 Medium The Cisco BGP router must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements for any prefixes belonging to the local autonomous system (AS).
V-216779 Medium The Cisco BGP router must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements from a customer edge (CE) router for prefixes that are not allocated to that customer.
V-217009 Medium The Cisco PE router must be configured to ignore or block all packets with any IP options.
V-217008 Medium The Cisco BGP router must be configured to use a unique key for each autonomous system (AS) that it peers with.
V-217006 Medium The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to block all packets with any IP options.
V-216767 Medium The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to block all outbound management traffic.
V-230151 Medium The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing a Destination Option header with invalid option type values.
V-230154 Medium The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing an extension header with the Endpoint Identification option.
V-216762 Medium The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to filter egress traffic at the internal interface on an inbound direction.
V-216761 Medium The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to filter ingress traffic at the external interface on an inbound direction.
V-216760 Medium The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to filter traffic destined to the enclave in accordance with the guidelines contained in DoD Instruction 8551.1.
V-216769 Medium The Cisco out-of-band management (OOBM) gateway router must be configured to forward only authorized management traffic to the Network Operations Center (NOC).
V-216768 Medium The Cisco out-of-band management (OOBM) gateway router must be configured to transport management traffic to the Network Operations Center (NOC) via dedicated circuit, MPLS/VPN service, or IPsec tunnel.
V-216753 Medium The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information between interconnected networks in accordance with applicable policy.
V-216750 Medium The Cisco router must be configured to produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred.
V-216751 Medium The Cisco router must be configured to produce audit records containing information to establish the source of the events.
V-216754 Medium The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to only allow incoming communications from authorized sources to be routed to authorized destinations.
V-216755 Medium The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to block inbound packets with source Bogon IP address prefixes.
V-230147 Medium The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing a Hop-by-Hop header with invalid option type values.
V-216748 Medium The Cisco router must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirect messages disabled on all external interfaces.
V-216744 Medium The Cisco router must be configured to drop all fragmented Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packets destined to itself.
V-216747 Medium The Cisco router must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) mask reply messages disabled on all external interfaces.
V-216746 Medium The Cisco router must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) unreachable messages disabled on all external interfaces.
V-230043 Medium The Cisco router must not be configured to use IPv6 Site Local Unicast addresses.
V-230046 Medium The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to suppress Router Advertisements on all external IPv6-enabled interfaces.
V-230160 Medium The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing a Hop-by-Hop or Destination Option extension header with an undefined option type.
V-230049 Medium The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to drop IPv6 undetermined transport packets.
V-216739 Medium The Cisco router must be configured to enable routing protocol authentication using FIPS 198-1 algorithms with keys not exceeding 180 days of lifetime.
V-216735 Medium The Cisco router 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-216806 Medium The Cisco PE router must be configured to enforce a Quality-of-Service (QoS) policy to limit the effects of packet flooding denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
V-216807 Medium The Cisco multicast router must be configured to disable Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) on all interfaces that are not required to support multicast routing.
V-216802 Medium The Cisco PE router must be configured with Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF) loose mode enabled on all CE-facing interfaces.
V-216800 Medium The Cisco PE router must be configured to limit the number of MAC addresses it can learn for each Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) bridge domain.
V-216808 Medium The Cisco multicast router must be configured to bind a Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) neighbor filter to interfaces that have PIM enabled.
V-230052 Medium The Cisco perimeter router must be configured drop IPv6 packets with a Routing Header type 0, 1, or 3–255.
V-216819 Medium The Cisco Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to authenticate all received MSDP packets.
V-216818 Medium The Cisco Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to only accept MSDP packets from known MSDP peers.
V-216813 Medium The Cisco multicast Rendezvous Point (RP) must be configured to rate limit the number of Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Register messages.
V-216815 Medium The Cisco multicast Designated Router (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-216817 Medium The Cisco multicast Designated Router (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-216816 Medium The Cisco multicast Designated Router (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-216766 Medium The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to have Proxy ARP disabled on all external interfaces.
V-216794 Medium The Cisco PE router 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-216793 Medium The Cisco PE router must be configured to have each VRF with the appropriate Route Distinguisher (RD).
V-216790 Medium The Cisco MPLS router must be configured to have TTL Propagation disabled.
V-216798 Medium The Cisco PE router providing Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) must be configured to have traffic storm control thresholds on CE-facing interfaces.
V-230157 Medium The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing the NSAP address option within Destination Option header.
V-216789 Low The MPLS router with RSVP-TE enabled must be configured with message pacing to adjust maximum burst and maximum number of RSVP messages to an output queue based on the link speed and input queue size of adjacent core routers.
V-216788 Low The Cisco MPLS router must be configured to synchronize IGP and LDP to minimize packet loss when an IGP adjacency is established prior to LDP peers completing label exchange.
V-216783 Low The Cisco BGP router must be configured to reject route advertisements from CE routers with an originating AS in the AS_PATH attribute that does not belong to that customer.
V-216782 Low The Cisco BGP router must be configured to reject route advertisements from BGP peers that do not list their autonomous system (AS) number as the first AS in the AS_PATH attribute.
V-216785 Low The Cisco BGP router must be configured to limit the prefix size on any inbound route advertisement to /24 or the least significant prefixes issued to the customer.
V-216787 Low The Cisco MPLS router must be configured to use its loopback address as the source address for LDP peering sessions.
V-216786 Low The Cisco BGP router must be configured to use its loopback address as the source address for iBGP peering sessions.
V-217007 Low The Cisco BGP router must be configured to enable the Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM).
V-216765 Low The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to have Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) disabled on all external interfaces.
V-216764 Low The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to have Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) disabled on all external interfaces.
V-216758 Low The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to not redistribute static routes to an alternate gateway service provider into BGP or an IGP peering with the NIPRNet or to other autonomous systems.
V-216820 Low The Cisco Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to filter received source-active multicast advertisements for any undesirable multicast groups and sources.
V-216821 Low The Cisco Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to filter source-active multicast advertisements to external MSDP peers to avoid global visibility of local-only multicast sources and groups.
V-216822 Low The Cisco Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to limit the amount of source-active messages it accepts on a per-peer basis.
V-216823 Low The Cisco Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to use a loopback address as the source address when originating MSDP traffic.
V-216749 Low The Cisco router must be configured to log all packets that have been dropped at interfaces via ACL.
V-216745 Low The Cisco router must be configured to have IP directed broadcast disabled on all interfaces.
V-216741 Low The Cisco router must be configured to have all non-essential capabilities disabled.
V-216740 Low The Cisco router must be configured to have all inactive interfaces disabled.
V-230040 Low The Cisco router must be configured to advertise a hop limit of at least 32 in Router Advertisement messages for IPv6 stateless auto-configuration deployments.
V-216804 Low The Cisco PE router must be configured to enforce a Quality-of-Service (QoS) policy to provide preferred treatment for mission-critical applications.
V-216805 Low The Cisco P router must be configured to enforce a Quality-of-Service (QoS) policy to provide preferred treatment for mission-critical applications.
V-216809 Low The Cisco multicast edge router must be configured to establish boundaries for administratively scoped multicast traffic.
V-216811 Low The Cisco multicast Rendezvous Point (RP) router must be configured to filter Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Register messages received from the Designated Router (DR) for any undesirable multicast groups and sources.
V-216810 Low The Cisco multicast Rendezvous Point (RP) router must be configured to filter Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Join messages received from the Designated Router (DR) for any undesirable multicast groups.
V-216812 Low The Cisco multicast Rendezvous Point (RP) router must be configured to filter Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Join messages received from the Designated Router (DR) for any undesirable multicast groups.
V-216814 Low The Cisco multicast Designated Router (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-216797 Low The Cisco PE router must be configured to enforce the split-horizon rule for all pseudowires within a Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) bridge domain.
V-216799 Low The Cisco PE router must be configured to implement Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) or Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) snooping for each Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) bridge domain.