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Cisco IOS XR Router RTR Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • The Cisco PE router must be configured to ignore or block all packets with any IP options.

    <VulnDiscussion>Packets with IP options are not fast switched and therefore must be punted to the router processor. Hackers who initiate deni...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000512-RTR-000100

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Cisco router must be configured to have Cisco Express Forwarding enabled.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Cisco router must be configured to advertise a hop limit of at least 32 in Router Advertisement messages for IPv6 stateless auto-configuration deployments.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The Neighbor Discovery protocol allows a hop limit value to be advertised by routers in a Router Advertisement message being ...
    Rule Low Severity

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