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DISA Cisco IOS Switch RTR STIG v3r1

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Audit Details

Name: DISA Cisco IOS Switch RTR STIG v3r1

Updated: 2/17/2026

Authority: DISA STIG

Plugin: Cisco

Revision: 1.4

Estimated Item Count: 53

File Details

Filename: DISA_STIG_Cisco_IOS_Switch_RTR_v3r1.audit

Size: 158 kB

MD5: 7645e0a47d466d12b953518a5f982b69
SHA256: 50e17b1cc5484cf99362505c5125cbe3e2e2fc2b79ce3cce9686d55855a565d2

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.
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.
CISC-RT-000060 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have all inactive Layer 3 interfaces disabled.
CISC-RT-000090 - The Cisco switch must not be configured to have any zero-touch deployment feature enabled when connected to an operational network.
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.
CISC-RT-000150 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have gratuitous ARP disabled on all external interfaces.
CISC-RT-000160 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have IP directed broadcast disabled on all interfaces.
CISC-RT-000170 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) unreachable messages disabled on all external interfaces.
CISC-RT-000180 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) mask reply messages disabled on all external interfaces.
CISC-RT-000190 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirect messages disabled on all external interfaces.
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).
CISC-RT-000210 - The Cisco switch must be configured to produce audit records containing information to establish where the events occurred.
CISC-RT-000220 - The Cisco switch must be configured to produce audit records containing information to establish the source of the events.
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.
CISC-RT-000235 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have Cisco Express Forwarding enabled.
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.
CISC-RT-000237 - The Cisco switch must not be configured to use IPv6 Site Local Unicast addresses.
CISC-RT-000240 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to deny network traffic by default and allow network traffic by exception.
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.
CISC-RT-000260 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to only allow incoming communications from authorized sources to be routed to authorized destinations.
CISC-RT-000270 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block inbound packets with source Bogon IP address prefixes.
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).
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.
CISC-RT-000330 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to filter ingress traffic at the external interface on an inbound direction.
CISC-RT-000340 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to filter egress traffic at the internal interface on an inbound direction.
CISC-RT-000350 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block all packets with any IP options.
CISC-RT-000360 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to have Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) disabled on all external interfaces.
CISC-RT-000370 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to have Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) disabled on all external interfaces.
CISC-RT-000380 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to have Proxy ARP disabled on all external interfaces.
CISC-RT-000390 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block all outbound management traffic.
CISC-RT-000391 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to suppress Router Advertisements on all external IPv6-enabled interfaces.
CISC-RT-000392 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to drop IPv6 undetermined transport packets.
CISC-RT-000393 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured drop IPv6 packets with a Routing Header type 0, 1, or 3-255.
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.
CISC-RT-000395 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing a Destination Option header with invalid option type values.
CISC-RT-000396 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing an extension header with the Endpoint Identification option.
CISC-RT-000397 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing the NSAP address option within Destination Option header.
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.
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.
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.
CISC-RT-000730 - The Cisco PE switch must be configured to block any traffic that is destined to the IP core infrastructure.
CISC-RT-000740 - The Cisco PE switch must be configured with Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF) loose mode enabled on all CE-facing interfaces.
CISC-RT-000750 - The Cisco PE switch must be configured to ignore or drop all packets with any IP options.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CISC-RT-000810 - The Cisco multicast edge switch must be configured to establish boundaries for administratively scoped multicast traffic.
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.