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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.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-220460CISC-RT-000780SV-220460r622190_ruleCCI-001095medium
Description
DoS is a condition when a resource is not available for legitimate users. Packet flooding distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are referred to as volumetric attacks and have the objective of overloading a network or circuit to deny or seriously degrade performance, which denies access to the services that normally traverse the network or circuit. Volumetric attacks have become relatively easy to launch using readily available tools such as Low Orbit Ion Cannon or botnets. Measures to mitigate the effects of a successful volumetric attack must be taken to ensure that sufficient capacity is available for mission-critical traffic. Managing capacity may include, for example, establishing selected network usage priorities or quotas and enforcing them using rate limiting, Quality of Service (QoS), or other resource reservation control methods. These measures may also mitigate the effects of sudden decreases in network capacity that are the result of accidental or intentional physical damage to telecommunications facilities (such as cable cuts or weather-related outages).
STIGDate
Cisco IOS Switch RTR Security Technical Implementation Guide2026-03-04

Related Frameworks

1 mapping across 4 frameworks
SCF0 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 3 hops (2) 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.

CAP-02Resource Priority
0.50
CAP-03Capacity Planning
0.50
NIST 800-530 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 2 hops (13) 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(10)Authenticate Remote Commands
1.00
AC-17(9)Disconnect or Disable Access
1.00
AC-3Access Enforcement
1.00
AC-4Information Flow Enforcement
1.00
AU-3Content of Audit Records
1.00
CM-6Configuration Settings
1.00
CM-7Least Functionality
1.00
CM-7(2)Prevent Program Execution
1.00
SC-47Alternate Communications Paths
1.00
SC-5Denial-of-service Protection
1.00

+3 more (top 10 by confidence shown)

CCI1 mapping
CCI-001095
1.00
NIST CSF 2.00 mappings

No source states a mapping between these directly.

Also reachable in 4 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.

PR.IR-04
0.50

Details

Check Text (C-220460r622190_chk)

Review the switch configuration to determine if it is configured to enforce a QoS policy to limit the effects of packet flooding DoS attacks. Step 1: Verify that a class-map has been configured for the Scavenger class as shown in the example below: class-map match-all SCAVENGER match ip dscp cs1 Step 2: Verify that the policy-map includes the SCAVENGER class with low priority as shown in the example below: policy-map QOS_POLICY class CONTROL_PLANE priority percent 10 class C2_VOICE priority percent 10 class VOICE priority percent 15 class VIDEO bandwidth percent 25 class PREFERRED_DATA bandwidth percent 25 class SCAVENGER bandwidth percent 5 class class-default bandwidth percent 10 Note: Traffic out of profile must be marked at the customer access layer or CE egress edge. If the switch is not configured to enforce a QoS policy to limit the effects of packet flooding DoS attacks, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-22164r508456_fix)

Step 1: Configure a class-map for the SCAVENGER class. SW1(config)#class-map match-all SCAVENGER SW1(config-cmap)#match ip dscp cs1 Step 2: Add the SCAVENGER class to the policy-map as shown in the example below: SW1(config)#policy-map QOS_POLICY SW1(config-pmap-c)#no class class-default SW1(config-pmap)#class SCAVENGER SW1(config-pmap-c)#bandwidth percent 5 SW1(config-pmap-c)#class class-default SW1(config-pmap-c)#bandwidth percent 10 SW1(config-pmap-c)#end