DISA STIG Cisco NX-OS Switch RTR v2r3

Audit Details

Name: DISA STIG Cisco NX-OS Switch RTR v2r3

Updated: 12/12/2023

Authority: DISA STIG

Plugin: Cisco

Revision: 1.1

Estimated Item Count: 81

File Details

Filename: DISA_STIG_Cisco_NX-OS_Switch_RTR_v2r3.audit

Size: 324 kB

MD5: 769ec88d767035d1cb1f20902ff1cf01
SHA256: e2be9491b35373e875283038f5b44f6ee4955b03337ad8b5bccb0a162f50c03d

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-000020 - The Cisco switch must be configured to implement message authentication for all control plane protocols.

ACCESS CONTROL, CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

CISC-RT-000030 - The Cisco switch must be configured to use keys with a duration not exceeding 180 days for authenticating routing protocol messages.

ACCESS CONTROL, CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

CISC-RT-000040 - The Cisco switch must be configured to use encryption for routing protocol authentication.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

CISC-RT-000050 - The Cisco switch must be configured to authenticate all routing protocol messages using NIST-validated FIPS 198-1 message authentication code algorithm.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

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

ACCESS CONTROL

CISC-RT-000070 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have all non-essential capabilities disabled.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

CISC-RT-000080 - The Cisco switch must not be configured to have any feature enabled that calls home to the vendor.

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-000130 - The Cisco switch must be configured to restrict traffic destined to itself.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000140 - The Cisco switch must be configured to drop all fragmented Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packets destined to itself - ICMP packets destined to itself

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-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 ACL.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

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-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-000470 - The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to check whether a single-hop eBGP peer is directly connected.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000480 - The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to use a unique key for each autonomous system (AS) that it peers with.

ACCESS CONTROL, CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

CISC-RT-000490 - The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements for any Bogon prefixes.

ACCESS CONTROL

CISC-RT-000500 - The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements for any prefixes belonging to the local autonomous system (AS) - AS

ACCESS CONTROL

CISC-RT-000510 - The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements from a customer edge (CE) switch for prefixes that are not allocated to that customer.

ACCESS CONTROL

CISC-RT-000520 - The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to reject outbound route advertisements for any prefixes that do not belong to any customers or the local autonomous system (AS).

ACCESS CONTROL

CISC-RT-000530 - The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to reject outbound route advertisements for any prefixes belonging to the IP core.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000540 - The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to reject route advertisements from BGP peers that do not list their autonomous system (AS) number as the first AS in the AS_PATH attribute.

ACCESS CONTROL

CISC-RT-000550 - The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to reject route advertisements from CE switches with an originating AS in the AS_PATH attribute that does not belong to that customer.

ACCESS CONTROL

CISC-RT-000560 - The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to use the maximum prefixes feature to protect against route table flooding and prefix de-aggregation attacks.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000570 - The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to limit the prefix size on any inbound route advertisement to /24, or the least significant prefixes issued to the customer.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000580 - The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to use its loopback address as the source address for iBGP peering sessions.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

CISC-RT-000590 - The Cisco MPLS switch must be configured to use its loopback address as the source address for LDP peering sessions.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

CISC-RT-000600 - The Cisco MPLS switch must be configured to synchronize Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) and LDP to minimize packet loss when an IGP adjacency is established prior to LDP peers completing label exchange - IGP and LDP to minimize packet loss when an IGP adjacency is established prior to LDP peers completing label exchange

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

CISC-RT-000600 - The Cisco MPLS switch must be configured to synchronize Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) and LDP to minimize packet loss when an IGP adjacency is established prior to LDP peers completing label exchange.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

CISC-RT-000610 - The MPLS switch with RSVP-TE enabled must be configured with message pacing to adjust maximum burst and maximum number of RSVP messages to an output queue based on the link speed and input queue size of adjacent core switches.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000620 - The Cisco MPLS switch must be configured to have TTL Propagation disabled.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT