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Cisco IOS Switch RTR Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The Cisco switch must not be configured to use IPv6 Site Local Unicast addresses.

    As currently defined, site local addresses are ambiguous and can be present in multiple sites. The address itself does not contain any indication of the site to which it belongs. The use of site-lo...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000512-RTR-000014

    Group
  • The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to suppress Router Advertisements on all external IPv6-enabled interfaces.

    Many of the known attacks in stateless autoconfiguration are defined in RFC 3756 were present in IPv4 ARP attacks. To mitigate these vulnerabilities, links that have no hosts connected such as the ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000364-RTR-000200

    Group
  • The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to drop IPv6 undetermined transport packets.

    One of the fragmentation weaknesses known in IPv6 is the undetermined transport packet. This packet contains an undetermined protocol due to fragmentation. Depending on the length of the IPv6 exten...
    Rule Medium Severity

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