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1.30 CISC-RT-000370

Information

The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to have Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) disabled on all external interfaces.

GROUP ID: V-216765RULE ID: SV-216765r856443

CDP is a Cisco proprietary neighbor discovery protocol used to advertise device capabilities, configuration information, and device identity. CDP is media- and protocol-independent as it runs over layer 2; therefore, two network nodes that support different layer 3 protocols can still learn about each other. Allowing CDP messages to reach external network nodes provides an attacker a method to obtain information of the network infrastructure that can be useful to plan an attack.

Solution

This requirement is not applicable for the DODIN Backbone.

Disable CDP on all external interfaces via no cdp command or disable CDP globally via no cdp command.

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/23599

Item Details

Category: SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

References: 800-53|SC-7(11), CAT|III, CCI|CCI-002403, Rule-ID|SV-216765r856443_rule, STIG-ID|CISC-RT-000370, Vuln-ID|V-216765

Plugin: Cisco

Control ID: 915e05879e4b4731a632344806c94c2c29c5df5c54baeaf5076557c5d1e96e6f