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III - Administrative Public

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-NET-000019-RTR-000002

    Group
  • The HP FlexFabric Switch must enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information between interconnected networks in accordance with applicable policy.

    Information flow control regulates authorized information to travel within a network and between interconnected networks. Controlling the flow of network traffic is critical so it does not introduc...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000191-RTR-000081

    Group
  • The HP FlexFabric Switch must ensure all Exterior Border Gateway Protocol (eBGP) HP FlexFabric Switches are configured to use Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM).

    As described in RFC 3682, GTSM is designed to protect a router's IP-based control plane from DoS attacks. Many attacks focused on CPU load and line-card overload can be prevented by implementing GT...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000019-RTR-000003

    Group
  • The HP FlexFabric Switch must disable Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) on all interfaces that are not required to support multicast routing.

    If multicast traffic is forwarded beyond the intended boundary, it is possible that it can be intercepted by unauthorized or unintended personnel. Limiting where, within the network, a given multic...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000019-RTR-000004

    Group
  • The HP FlexFabric Switch must bind a Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) neighbor filter to interfaces that have PIM enabled.

    Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) is a routing protocol used to build multicast distribution trees for forwarding multicast traffic across the network infrastructure. Protocol Independent Multic...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000019-RTR-000005

    Group
  • The HP FlexFabric Switch must establish boundaries for IPv6 Admin-Local, IPv6 Site-Local, IPv6 Organization-Local scope, and IPv4 Local-Scope multicast traffic.

    If multicast traffic is forwarded beyond the intended boundary, it is possible that it can be intercepted by unauthorized or unintended personnel. Administrative scoped multicast addresses are loc...
    Rule Medium Severity

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