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II - Mission Support Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to use the maximum prefixes feature to protect against route table flooding and prefix de-aggregation attacks.

    The effects of prefix de-aggregation can degrade switch performance due to the size of routing tables and also result in black-holing legitimate traffic. Initiated by an attacker or a misconfigured...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-NET-000362-RTR-000118

    Group
  • The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to limit the prefix size on any inbound route advertisement to /24, or the least significant prefixes issued to the customer.

    The effects of prefix de-aggregation can degrade switch performance due to the size of routing tables and also result in black-holing legitimate traffic. Initiated by an attacker or a misconfigured...
    Rule Low Severity
  • SRG-NET-000512-RTR-000001

    Group
  • The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to use its loopback address as the source address for iBGP peering sessions.

    Using a loopback address as the source address offers a multitude of uses for security, access, management, and scalability of the BGP switches. It is easier to construct appropriate ingress filter...
    Rule Low Severity

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