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Cisco IOS XE Router RTR Security Technical Implementation Guide

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • SRG-NET-000230-RTR-000002

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Cisco BGP router must be configured to use a unique key for each autonomous system (AS) that it peers with.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;If the same keys are used between eBGP neighbors, the chance of a hacker compromising any of the BGP sessions increases. It i...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000205-RTR-000016

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Cisco PE router must be configured to ignore or drop all packets with any IP options.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;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
  • SRG-NET-000512-RTR-000013

    <GroupDescription></GroupDescription>
    Group
  • The Cisco perimeter router must be configured to drop IPv6 undetermined transport packets.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;One of the fragmentation weaknesses known in IPv6 is the undetermined transport packet. This packet contains an undetermined ...
    Rule Medium Severity

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