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1.122 SOL-11.1-050050

Information

The system must not respond to broadcast ICMP echo requests.

GROUP ID: V-216372
RULE ID: SV-216372r959010

ICMP echo requests can be useful for reconnaissance of systems and for denial of service attacks.

Solution

The Network Management profile is required.

Disable respond to echo broadcast.

# pfexec ipadm set-prop -p _respond_to_echo_broadcast=0 ip

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/23765

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6b., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000366, Rule-ID|SV-216372r959010_rule, STIG-ID|SOL-11.1-050050, Vuln-ID|V-216372

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 43c48580904b53463102cf361ef07306f85b0f395393355daa15aebde7af6030