The Cisco BGP router must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements for any prefixes belonging to the local autonomous system (AS).

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-216778CISC-RT-000500SV-216778r531087_ruleCCI-001368medium
Description
Accepting route advertisements belonging to the local AS can result in traffic looping or being black holed, or at a minimum using a non-optimized path.
STIGDate
Cisco IOS XR Router RTR Security Technical Implementation Guide2024-08-22

Related Frameworks

3 paths across 3 frameworks
NIST 800-531 mapping
AC-4
1.00
  • DISA · 3 · disa_xccdf · related
  • DISA · 2025-01-23 · disa_cci_list · equivalent
NIST 800-1711 mapping
3.1.3
1.00
  • DISA · 3 · disa_xccdf · related
  • DISA · 2025-01-23 · disa_cci_list · equivalent
  • NIST · Rev 2 (Feb 2020, errata Jan 2021) · nist_800_171_app_d · equivalent
CCI1 mapping
CCI-001368
1.00
  • DISA · 3 · disa_xccdf · related

Details

Check Text (C-216778r531087_chk)

Review the router configuration to verify that it will reject routes belonging to the local AS. Step 1: verify that an inbound route policy has been configured for each external neighbor as shown in the example below. router bgp xx address-family ipv4 unicast ! neighbor x.1.23.3 remote-as yy keychain YYY_KEY_CHAIN ttl-security address-family ipv4 unicast route-policy BGP_FILTER_INBOUND in ! ! neighbor x.1.24.4 remote-as zz keychain ZZZ_KEY_CHAIN ttl-security address-family ipv4 unicast route-policy BGP_FILTER_INBOUND in ! ! Step 2: Review the route policy to determine if it is filtering at a minimum local prefixes as shown in the example below. route-policy BGP_FILTER_INBOUND if destination in LOCAL_PREFIX then drop else pass endif end-policy Note: If bogons are also filtered per previous requirement, the route policy would look similar to the following example: route-policy BGP_FILTER_INBOUND if destination in BOGON_PREFIXES then drop elseif destination in LOCAL_PREFIX then drop else pass endif end-policy Step 3: Review the prefix set referenced in the route policy above to determine if it includes the local global prefix as shown in the example below. prefix-set LOCAL_PREFIX x.13.1.0/24 le 32 end-set If the router is not configured to reject inbound route advertisements belonging to the local AS, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-18008r288712_fix)

Step 1: Configure a prefix set containing the current Bogon prefixes as shown below. RP/0/0/CPU0:R2(config)#prefix-set Step 1: Configure a prefix set containing the current Bogon prefixes as shown below. RP/0/0/CPU0:R2(config)#prefix-set LOCAL_PREFIX RP/0/0/CPU0:R2(config-pfx)#x.13.1.0/24 le 32 RP/0/0/CPU0:R2(config-pfx)#end-set Step 2: Configure the route policy to drop routes with BOGON prefixes as shown in the example below. RP/0/0/CPU0:R2(config)#route-policy BGP_FILTER_INBOUND RP/0/0/CPU0:R2(config-rpl)#if destination in LOCAL_PREFIX then RP/0/0/CPU0:R2(config-rpl-if)#drop RP/0/0/CPU0:R2(config-rpl-if)#else pass endif RRP/0/0/CPU0:R2(config-rpl)#end-policy RP/0/0/CPU0:R2(config)#exit Step 3: Apply the route policy to each external BGP neighbor as shown in the example. RP/0/0/CPU0:R2(config)#router bgp xx RP/0/0/CPU0:R2(config-bgp)#neighbor x.1.23.3 RP/0/0/CPU0:R2(config-bgp-nbr)#address-family ipv4 unicast RP/0/0/CPU0:R2(config-bgp-nbr-af)#route-policy BGP_FILTER_INBOUND in RP/0/0/CPU0:R2(config-bgp)#neighbor x.1.24.4 RP/0/0/CPU0:R2(config-bgp-nbr)#address-family ipv4 unicast RP/0/0/CPU0:R2(config-bgp-nbr-af)#route-policy BGP_FILTER_INBOUND in