The Cisco Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) switch must be configured to filter received source-active multicast advertisements for any undesirable multicast groups and sources.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>The interoperability of BGP extensions for interdomain multicast routing and MSDP enables seamless connectivity of multicast domains between autonomous systems. MP-BGP advertises the unicast prefixes of the multicast sources used by Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) switches to perform RPF checks and build multicast distribution trees. MSDP is a mechanism used to connect multiple PIM sparse-mode domains, allowing RPs from different domains to share information about active sources. When RPs in peering multicast domains hear about active sources, they can pass on that information to their local receivers, thereby allowing multicast data to be forwarded between the domains. Configuring an import policy to block multicast advertisements for reserved, Martian, single-source multicast, and any other undesirable multicast groups, as well as any source-group (S, G) states with Bogon source addresses, would assist in avoiding unwanted multicast traffic from traversing the core.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-221144r622190_rule
- Severity
- Low
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Configure the MSDP switch to filter received source-active multicast advertisements for any undesirable multicast groups and sources as shown in the example below:
SW1(config)# ip prefix-list INBOUND_MSDP_SA_FILTER seq 10 deny 224.0.1.3/32
SW1(config)# ip prefix-list INBOUND_MSDP_SA_FILTER seq 15 deny 224.0.1.24/32
SW1(config)# ip prefix-list INBOUND_MSDP_SA_FILTER seq 20 deny 224.0.1.22/32
SW1(config)# ip prefix-list INBOUND_MSDP_SA_FILTER seq 25 deny 224.0.1.2/32