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

An XCCDF Rule

Description

<VulnDiscussion>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.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>

ID
SV-221103r622190_rule
Severity
Medium
References
Updated



Remediation - 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