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.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-216611	CISC-RT-000630	SV-216611r991841_rule	CCI-004931	high
Description
The primary security model for an MPLS L3VPN infrastructure is traffic separation. The service provider must guarantee the customer that traffic from one VPN does not leak into another VPN or into the core, and that core traffic must not leak into any VPN. Hence, it is imperative that each CE-facing interface can only be associated to one VRF—that alone is the fundamental framework for traffic separation.
STIG			Date
Cisco IOS Router RTR Security Technical Implementation Guide			2025-08-19

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 3 frameworks

SCF0 mappings

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Also reachable in 3 hops (1) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

BCD-10.4Alternate Communications Channels

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DISA STIG Benchmark (XCCDF)V3R4intersects(normalised)
DISA CCI List2025-01-23equal to(normalised)
SCF Secure Traceability Relationship Mapping (STRM)2026.2equal to

NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (5) derived by us, not asserted by any source

Each of these is a route we composed by chaining published mappings. No publisher states a relationship between the two endpoints.

SC-47Alternate Communications Paths

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DISA CCI List2025-01-23equal to(normalised)

SC-5(2)Capacity, Bandwidth, and Redundancy

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SC-7Boundary Protection

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SC-7(11)Restrict Incoming Communications Traffic

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SC-7(29)Separate Subnets to Isolate Functions

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CCI1 mapping

CCI-004931

1.00

DISA STIG Benchmark (XCCDF)V3R4intersects(normalised)

Details

Check Text (C-216611r991841_chk)

Step 1: Review the design plan for deploying MPLS/L3VPN. Step 2: Review all CE-facing interfaces and verify that the proper VRF is defined via the "ip vrf forwarding" command. In the example below, COI1 is bound to interface GigabitEthernet0/1, while COI2 is bound to GigabitEthernet0/2. interface GigabitEthernet0/1 description link to COI1 ip vrf forwarding COI1 ip address x.1.0.1 255.255.255.0 ! interface GigabitEthernet0/2 description link to COI2 ip vrf forwarding COI2 ip address x.2.0.2 255.255.255.0 If any VRFs are not bound to the appropriate physical or logical interface, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-17842r507997_fix)

Configure the PE router to have each VRF bound to the appropriate physical or logical interfaces to maintain traffic separation between all MPLS L3VPNs.