DISA STIG Cisco IOS Switch RTR v2r5

Audit Details

Name: DISA STIG Cisco IOS Switch RTR v2r5

Updated: 12/12/2023

Authority: DISA STIG

Plugin: Cisco

Revision: 1.0

Estimated Item Count: 54

File Details

Filename: DISA_STIG_Cisco_IOS_Switch_RTR_v2r5.audit

Size: 168 kB

MD5: 12270b1ee68b77ccde9f7284e996aa8c
SHA256: 7e1c3558e5cfc2bd6fc3518ac47e086612a4c3f6e13d3df202cb26c45bd35fb0

Audit Items

DescriptionCategories
CISC-RT-000010 - The Cisco switch must be configured to enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information within the network based on organization-defined information flow control policies.

ACCESS CONTROL

CISC-RT-000050 - The Cisco switch must be configured to enable routing protocol authentication using FIPS 198-1 algorithms with keys not exceeding 180 days of lifetime.

ACCESS CONTROL, IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

CISC-RT-000060 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have all inactive Layer 3 interfaces disabled.

ACCESS CONTROL

CISC-RT-000090 - The Cisco switch must not be configured to have any zero-touch deployment feature enabled when connected to an operational network.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000120 - The Cisco switch must be configured to protect against or limit the effects of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by employing control plane protection.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000150 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have gratuitous ARP disabled on all external interfaces.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000160 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have IP directed broadcast disabled on all interfaces.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000170 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) unreachable messages disabled on all external interfaces - ICMP unreachable messages disabled on all external interfaces

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000180 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) mask reply messages disabled on all external interfaces.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000190 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirect messages disabled on all external interfaces.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000200 - The Cisco switch must be configured to log all packets that have been dropped at interfaces via an access control list (ACL).

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

CISC-RT-000210 - The Cisco switch must be configured to produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

CISC-RT-000220 - The Cisco switch must be configured to produce audit records containing information to establish the source of the events.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

CISC-RT-000230 - The Cisco switch must be configured to disable the auxiliary port unless it is connected to a secured modem providing encryption and authentication.

ACCESS CONTROL

CISC-RT-000235 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have Cisco Express Forwarding enabled.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

CISC-RT-000236 - The Cisco switch must be configured to advertise a hop limit of at least 32 in Switch Advertisement messages for IPv6 stateless auto-configuration deployments.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

CISC-RT-000237 - The Cisco switch must not be configured to use IPv6 Site Local Unicast addresses.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

CISC-RT-000240 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to deny network traffic by default and allow network traffic by exception.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000250 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information between interconnected networks in accordance with applicable policy.

ACCESS CONTROL

CISC-RT-000260 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to only allow incoming communications from authorized sources to be routed to authorized destinations.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000270 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block inbound packets with source Bogon IP address prefixes.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000310 - The Cisco perimeter switch 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).

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000320 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to filter traffic destined to the enclave in accordance with the guidelines contained in DoD Instruction 8551.1.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000330 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to filter ingress traffic at the external interface on an inbound direction.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000340 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to filter egress traffic at the internal interface on an inbound direction.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000350 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block all packets with any IP options.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000360 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to have Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) disabled on all external interfaces.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000370 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to have Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) disabled on all external interfaces.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000380 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to have Proxy ARP disabled on all external interfaces.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000390 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block all outbound management traffic.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000391 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to suppress Router Advertisements on all external IPv6-enabled interfaces.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

CISC-RT-000392 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to drop IPv6 undetermined transport packets.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000393 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured drop IPv6 packets with a Routing Header type 0, 1, or 3-255.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000394 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing a Hop-by-Hop header with invalid option type values.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000395 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing a Destination Option header with invalid option type values.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000396 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing an extension header with the Endpoint Identification option.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000397 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing the NSAP address option within Destination Option header.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000398 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing a Hop-by-Hop or Destination Option extension header with an undefined option type.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000450 - The Cisco switch must be configured to only permit management traffic that ingresses and egresses the out-of-band management (OOBM) interface.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000660 - The Cisco PE switch 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.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

CISC-RT-000730 - The Cisco PE switch must be configured to block any traffic that is destined to the IP core infrastructure.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000740 - The Cisco PE switch must be configured with Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF) loose mode enabled on all CE-facing interfaces.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000750 - The Cisco PE switch must be configured to ignore or drop all packets with any IP options.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000760 - The Cisco PE switch must be configured to enforce a Quality-of-Service (QoS) policy to provide preferred treatment for mission-critical applications.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000770 - The Cisco P switch must be configured to enforce a Quality-of-Service (QoS) policy to provide preferred treatment for mission-critical applications.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000780 - 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.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000790 - The Cisco multicast switch must be configured to disable Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) on all interfaces that are not required to support multicast routing.

ACCESS CONTROL

CISC-RT-000800 - The Cisco multicast switch must be configured to bind a Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) neighbor filter to interfaces that have PIM enabled.

ACCESS CONTROL

CISC-RT-000810 - The Cisco multicast edge switch must be configured to establish boundaries for administratively scoped multicast traffic.

ACCESS CONTROL

CISC-RT-000860 - The Cisco multicast Designated switch (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.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION