Cisco IOS XE Switch RTR Security Technical Implementation Guide
Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark
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SRG-NET-000018-RTR-000009
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The Cisco Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) switch must be configured to limit the amount of source-active messages it accepts on a per-peer basis.
<VulnDiscussion>To reduce any risk of a denial-of-service (DoS) attack from a rogue or misconfigured MSDP switch, the switch must be configur...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-NET-000512-RTR-000011
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The Cisco Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) switch must be configured to use a loopback address as the source address when originating MSDP traffic.
<VulnDiscussion>Using a loopback address as the source address offers a multitude of uses for security, access, management, and scalability o...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-NET-000512-RTR-000100
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The Cisco switch must be configured to have Cisco Express Forwarding enabled.
<VulnDiscussion>The Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF) switching mode replaces the traditional Cisco routing cache with a data structure that mir...Rule Medium Severity -
SRG-NET-000512-RTR-000012
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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.
<VulnDiscussion>The Neighbor Discovery protocol allows a hop limit value to be advertised by routers in a Router Advertisement message being ...Rule Low Severity -
SRG-NET-000512-RTR-000013
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The Cisco switch must not be configured to use IPv6 Site Local Unicast addresses.
<VulnDiscussion>As currently defined, site local addresses are ambiguous and can be present in multiple sites. The address itself does not co...Rule Medium Severity
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