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The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements for any Bogon prefixes.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

Accepting route advertisements for Bogon prefixes can result in the local autonomous system (AS) becoming a transit for malicious traffic as it will in turn advertise these prefixes to neighbor autonomous systems.

ID
SV-221103r999712_rule
Version
CISC-RT-000490
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

Configure the switch to reject inbound route advertisements for any Bogon prefixes.

Step 1: Configure a prefix list containing the current Bogon prefixes as shown below:

SW1(config)# ip prefix-list PREFIX_FILTER seq 5 deny 0.0.0.0/8 le 32
SW1(config)# ip prefix-list PREFIX_FILTER seq 10 deny 10.0.0.0/8 le 32