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

An XCCDF Rule

Description

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

ID
SV-221142r999751_rule
Version
CISC-RT-000900
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

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

SW1(config)# ip access-list EXTERNAL_ACL_INBOUND
SW1(config-acl) # permit tcp any any established
SW1(config-acl) # permit tcp host x.1.28.2 host x.1.28.8 eq 639
SW1(config-acl) # deny tcp any host x1.28.8 eq 639