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Cisco IOS XR Router RTR Security Technical Implementation Guide


Overview

Date Finding Count (89)
2019-12-20 CAT I (High): 10 CAT II (Med): 51 CAT III (Low): 28
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-96693 High The Cisco router must be configured to restrict traffic destined to itself.
V-96725 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-96721 High The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to not be a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) peer to an alternate gateway service provider.
V-96809 High The Cisco PE router must be configured to block any traffic that is destined to IP core infrastructure.
V-96719 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-96711 High The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to deny network traffic by default and allow network traffic by exception.
V-96791 High The Cisco PE router must be configured to have each Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) instance with the appropriate Route Target (RT).
V-96797 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-96799 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-96789 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-96707 Medium The Cisco router must be configured to produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred.
V-96703 Medium The Cisco router must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirect messages disabled on all external interfaces.
V-96701 Medium The Cisco router must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) mask reply messages disabled on all external interfaces.
V-96709 Medium The Cisco router must be configured to produce audit records containing information to establish the source of the events.
V-96845 Medium The Cisco Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to authenticate all received MSDP packets.
V-96841 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-96843 Medium The Cisco Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to only accept MSDP packets from known MSDP peers.
V-96685 Medium The Cisco router must be configured to authenticate all routing protocol messages using NIST-validated FIPS 198-1 message authentication code algorithm.
V-96683 Medium The Cisco router must be configured to use encryption for routing protocol authentication.
V-96681 Medium The Cisco router must be configured to use keys with a duration not exceeding 180 days for authenticating routing protocol messages.
V-96679 Medium The Cisco router must be configured to implement message authentication for all control plane protocols.
V-96775 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-96677 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-96695 Medium The Cisco router must be configured to drop all fragmented Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packets destined to itself.
V-96691 Medium The Cisco router must not be configured to have any feature enabled that calls home to the vendor.
V-96699 Medium The Cisco router must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) unreachable messages disabled on all external interfaces.
V-96761 Medium The Cisco BGP router must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements for any Bogon prefixes.
V-96763 Medium The Cisco BGP router must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements for any prefixes belonging to the local autonomous system (AS).
V-96765 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-96767 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-96769 Medium The Cisco BGP router must be configured to reject outbound route advertisements for any prefixes belonging to the IP core.
V-96823 Medium The Cisco multicast router must be configured to bind a Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) neighbor filter to interfaces that have PIM enabled.
V-96821 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-96759 Medium The Cisco BGP router must be configured to use a unique key for each autonomous system (AS) that it peers with.
V-96755 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-96751 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-96753 Medium The Cisco router must be configured to only permit management traffic that ingresses and egresses the out-of-band management (OOBM) interface.
V-96739 Medium The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to have Proxy ARP disabled on all external interfaces.
V-96733 Medium The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to block all packets with any IP options.
V-96731 Medium The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to filter egress traffic at the internal interface on an inbound direction.
V-96837 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-96833 Medium The Cisco multicast Rendezvous Point (RP) must be configured to rate limit the number of Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Register messages.
V-96839 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-96749 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-96743 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-96741 Medium The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to block all outbound management traffic.
V-96747 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-96745 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-96729 Medium The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to filter ingress traffic at the external interface on an inbound direction.
V-96727 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-96803 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-96807 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-96713 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-96715 Medium The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to only allow incoming communications from authorized sources to be routed to authorized destinations.
V-96717 Medium The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to block inbound packets with source Bogon IP address prefixes.
V-96793 Medium The Cisco PE router must be configured to have each VRF with the appropriate Route Distinguisher (RD).
V-96795 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-96819 Medium The Cisco 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-96813 Medium The Cisco PE router must be configured to ignore or block all packets with any IP options.
V-96811 Medium The Cisco PE router must be configured with Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF) loose mode enabled on all CE-facing interfaces.
V-96787 Medium The Cisco MPLS router must be configured to have TTL Propagation disabled.
V-96705 Low The Cisco router must be configured to log all packets that have been dropped at interfaces via ACL.
V-96847 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-96849 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-96687 Low The Cisco router must be configured to have all inactive interfaces disabled.
V-96689 Low The Cisco router must be configured to have all non-essential capabilities disabled.
V-96773 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-96771 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-96777 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-96779 Low The Cisco BGP router must be configured to use its loopback address as the source address for iBGP peering sessions.
V-96853 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-96851 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-96697 Low The Cisco router must be configured to have IP directed broadcast disabled on all interfaces.
V-96827 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-96825 Low The Cisco multicast edge router must be configured to establish boundaries for administratively scoped multicast traffic.
V-96829 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-96757 Low The Cisco BGP router must be configured to enable the Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM).
V-96737 Low The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to have Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) disabled on all external interfaces.
V-96735 Low The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to have Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) disabled on all external interfaces.
V-96835 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-96831 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-96723 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-96801 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-96805 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.
V-96817 Low The Cisco P router must be configured to implement a Quality-of-Service (QoS) policy in accordance with the QoS DODIN Technical Profile.
V-96815 Low The Cisco PE router must be configured to enforce a Quality-of-Service (QoS) policy in accordance with the QoS DODIN Technical Profile.
V-96785 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-96783 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-96781 Low The Cisco MPLS router must be configured to use its loopback address as the source address for LDP peering sessions.