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The Cisco Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to only accept MSDP packets from known MSDP peers.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

MSDP peering with customer network routers presents additional risks to the DISN Core, whether from a rogue or misconfigured MSDP-enabled router. To guard against an attack from malicious MSDP traffic, the receive path or interface filter for all MSDP-enabled RP routers must be configured to only accept MSDP packets from known MSDP peers.

ID
SV-216818r856455_rule
Version
CISC-RT-000900
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Configure the interface ACLs to only accept MSDP packets from known MSDP peers.

RP/0/0/CPU0:R2(config)#ipv4 access-list EXTERNAL_ACL_INBOUND
RP/0/0/CPU0:R2(config-ipv4-acl)#permit tcp host x.1.28.2 host x.1.28.8 eq 639
RP/0/0/CPU0:R2(config-ipv4-acl)#deny tcp any host x.1.28.8 eq 639 log
RP/0/0/CPU0:R2(config-ipv4-acl)#permit tcp host x.1.28.2 host x.1.28.8 eq bgp