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The Cisco switch must have all user-facing or untrusted ports configured as access switch ports.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-220645CISC-L2-000250SV-220645r991853_ruleCCI-004891medium
Description
Double encapsulation can be initiated by an attacker who has access to a switch port belonging to the native VLAN of the trunk port. Knowing the victim's MAC address and with the victim attached to a different switch belonging to the same trunk group, thereby requiring the trunk link and frame tagging, the malicious user can begin the attack by sending frames with two sets of tags. The outer tag that will have the attacker's VLAN ID (probably the well-known and omnipresent default VLAN) is stripped off by the switch, and the inner tag that will have the victim's VLAN ID is used by the switch as the next hop and sent out the trunk port.
STIGDate
Cisco IOS Switch L2S Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-05-01

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 3 frameworks
SCF0 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (3) 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.

CLD-03Cloud Infrastructure Security Subnet
0.50
NET-03.8Separate Subnet for Connecting to Different Security Domains
0.50
NET-06.1Security Management Subnets
0.50
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (8) 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.

AC-17(2)Protection of Confidentiality and Integrity Using Encryption
1.00
AC-3Access Enforcement
1.00
CM-6Configuration Settings
1.00
SC-47Alternate Communications Paths
1.00
SC-7Boundary Protection
1.00
SC-7(11)Restrict Incoming Communications Traffic
1.00
SC-7(29)Separate Subnets to Isolate Functions
1.00
SC-8Transmission Confidentiality and Integrity
1.00
CCI1 mapping
CCI-004891
1.00

Details

Check Text (C-220645r991853_chk)

Review the switch configurations and examine all user-facing or untrusted switchports. The example below depicts both access and trunk ports: interface GigabitEthernet0/1 switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q switchport mode trunk negotiation auto ! interface GigabitEthernet0/2 switchport access vlan 11 negotiation auto ! interface GigabitEthernet0/3 switchport access vlan 12 negotiation auto If any of the user-facing switch ports are configured as a trunk, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-22349r507982_fix)

Disable trunking on all user-facing or untrusted switch ports: SW1(config)#int g0/6 SW1(config-if)#switchport mode access SW1(config-if)#end