DISA Dell OS10 Switch Router STIG v1r1

Audit Details

Name: DISA Dell OS10 Switch Router STIG v1r1

Updated: 2/4/2026

Authority: DISA STIG

Plugin: Dell_OS10

Revision: 1.0

Estimated Item Count: 42

File Details

Filename: DISA_STIG_Dell_OS10_Switch_Router_v1r1.audit

Size: 152 kB

MD5: 179b791a1f34b1bb02574435ac1388a8
SHA256: 67f9919a8889322e6f9536faca9cb586acb0a0e28c3e0c1421add8979e460aa4

Audit Items

DescriptionCategories
OS10-RTR-000010 - The Dell OS10 Router 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

OS10-RTR-000020 - The Dell OS10 BGP router must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements for any Bogon prefixes.

ACCESS CONTROL

OS10-RTR-000030 - The Dell OS10 BGP router must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements for any prefixes belonging to the local autonomous system (AS).

ACCESS CONTROL

OS10-RTR-000040 - The Dell OS10 BGP router must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements from a customer edge (CE) router for prefixes that are not allocated to that customer.

ACCESS CONTROL

OS10-RTR-000050 - The Dell OS10 BGP router 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

OS10-RTR-000060 - The Dell OS10 BGP router 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

OS10-RTR-000100 - The Dell OS10 BGP router must be configured to reject route advertisements from CE routers with an originating autonomous system (AS) in the AS_PATH attribute that does not belong to that customer.

ACCESS CONTROL

OS10-RTR-000130 - The Dell OS10 multicast router must be configured to disable Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) on all interfaces that are not required to support multicast routing.

ACCESS CONTROL

OS10-RTR-000140 - The Dell OS10 multicast router must be configured to bind a Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) neighbor filter to interfaces that have PIM enabled.

ACCESS CONTROL

OS10-RTR-000160 - The Dell OS10 Router must be configured to have all inactive interfaces disabled.

ACCESS CONTROL

OS10-RTR-000180 - The perimeter router must be configured to not be a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) peer to an alternate gateway service provider.

ACCESS CONTROL

OS10-RTR-000200 - The Dell OS10 out-of-band management (OOBM) gateway router must be configured to have separate Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) instances for the managed network and management network.

ACCESS CONTROL

OS10-RTR-000210 - The Dell OS10 out-of-band management (OOBM) gateway router must be configured to not redistribute routes between the management network routing domain and the managed network routing domain.

ACCESS CONTROL

OS10-RTR-000220 - The Dell OS10 multicast Rendezvous Point (RP) router must be configured to filter Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Register messages received from the Designated Router (DR) for any undesirable multicast groups and sources.

ACCESS CONTROL

OS10-RTR-000230 - The Dell OS10 multicast Rendezvous Point (RP) router must be configured to filter Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Join messages received from the Designated Router (DR) for any undesirable multicast groups.

ACCESS CONTROL

OS10-RTR-000260 - The Dell OS10 Router must be configured to log all packets that have been dropped.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

OS10-RTR-000280 - The Dell OS10 Router must not be configured to have any feature enabled that calls home to the vendor.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

OS10-RTR-000290 - The Dell OS10 Router must be configured to use encryption for routing protocol authentication.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

OS10-RTR-000300 - The Dell OS10 Router must be configured to authenticate all routing protocol messages using NIST-validated FIPS 198-1 message authentication code algorithm.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

OS10-RTR-000340 - The PE router 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

OS10-RTR-000380 - The Dell OS10 Router must be configured to restrict traffic destined to itself.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

OS10-RTR-000390 - The Dell OS10 Router must be configured to drop all fragmented Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packets destined to itself.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

OS10-RTR-000430 - The Dell OS10 BGP router must be configured to reject outbound route advertisements for any prefixes belonging to the IP core.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

OS10-RTR-000470 - The Dell OS10 out-of-band management (OOBM) gateway router must be configured to forward only authorized management traffic to the Network Operations Center (NOC).

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

OS10-RTR-000480 - The Dell OS10 out-of-band management (OOBM) gateway router must be configured to block any traffic destined to itself that is not sourced from the OOBM network or the NOC.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

OS10-RTR-000540 - The Dell OS10 Router must be configured to implement message authentication for all control plane protocols.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

OS10-RTR-000550 - The Dell OS10 BGP router must be configured to use a unique key for each autonomous system (AS) that it peers with.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

OS10-RTR-000560 - The Dell OS10 Router must be configured to use keys with a duration not exceeding 180 days for authenticating routing protocol messages.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

OS10-RTR-000600 - The Dell OS10 Router must not be configured to have any zero-touch deployment feature enabled when connected to an operational network.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

OS10-RTR-000610 - The Dell OS10 Router 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

OS10-RTR-000620 - The Dell OS10 Router must be configured to have Gratuitous ARP disabled on all external interfaces.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

OS10-RTR-000630 - The Dell OS10 Router must be configured to have IP directed broadcast disabled on all interfaces.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

OS10-RTR-000640 - The Dell OS10 Router must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) unreachable notifications disabled on all external interfaces.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

OS10-RTR-000670 - The Dell OS10 BGP router must be configured to use the maximum prefixes feature to protect against route table flooding and prefix deaggregation attacks.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

OS10-RTR-000680 - The Dell OS10 BGP router 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

OS10-RTR-000710 - The Dell OS10 multicast Rendezvous Point (RP) must be configured to rate limit the number of Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Register messages.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

OS10-RTR-000800 - The Dell OS10 multicast Designated Router (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

OS10-RTR-000810 - The Dell OS10 multicast Designated Router (DR) must be configured to filter the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Report messages to allow hosts to join a multicast group only from sources that have been approved by the organization.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

OS10-RTR-000910 - The Dell OS10 BGP router must be configured to use its loopback address as the source address for iBGP peering sessions.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

OS10-RTR-001020 - The Dell OS10 Router must be configured to advertise a hop limit of at least 32 in Router Advertisement messages for IPv6 stateless auto-configuration deployments.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

OS10-RTR-001030 - The Dell OS10 Router must not be configured to use IPv6 Site Local Unicast addresses.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

OS10-RTR-001040 - The Dell OS10 Router must be configured to suppress Router Advertisements on all external IPv6-enabled interfaces.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT