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DISA STIG Cisco NX-OS Switch RTR v2r1

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Audit Details

Name: DISA STIG Cisco NX-OS Switch RTR v2r1

Updated: 9/19/2023

Authority: DISA STIG

Plugin: Cisco

Revision: 1.7

Estimated Item Count: 152

Audit Items

DescriptionCategories
CISC-RT-000010 - The Cisco switch must be configured to enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information within the network based on organization-defined information flow control policies.
CISC-RT-000020 - The Cisco switch must be configured to implement message authentication for all control plane protocols - bgp

ACCESS CONTROL, CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

CISC-RT-000020 - The Cisco switch must be configured to implement message authentication for all control plane protocols - eigrp

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000020 - The Cisco switch must be configured to implement message authentication for all control plane protocols - is-is

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

CISC-RT-000020 - The Cisco switch must be configured to implement message authentication for all control plane protocols - ospf

ACCESS CONTROL, CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

CISC-RT-000020 - The Cisco switch must be configured to implement message authentication for all control plane protocols - rip

ACCESS CONTROL, CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

CISC-RT-000030 - The Cisco switch must be configured to use keys with a duration not exceeding 180 days for authenticating routing protocol messages.

ACCESS CONTROL

CISC-RT-000040 - The Cisco switch must be configured to use encryption for routing protocol authentication - bgp

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

CISC-RT-000040 - The Cisco switch must be configured to use encryption for routing protocol authentication - eigrp
CISC-RT-000040 - The Cisco switch must be configured to use encryption for routing protocol authentication - is-is

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

CISC-RT-000040 - The Cisco switch must be configured to use encryption for routing protocol authentication - ospf

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

CISC-RT-000040 - The Cisco switch must be configured to use encryption for routing protocol authentication - rip

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000050 - The Cisco switch must be configured to authenticate all routing protocol messages using NIST-validated FIPS 198-1 message authentication code algorithm.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

CISC-RT-000060 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have all inactive layer 3 interfaces disabled.

ACCESS CONTROL

CISC-RT-000070 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have all non-essential capabilities disabled.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

CISC-RT-000080 - The Cisco switch must not be configured to have any feature enabled that calls home to the vendor.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000120 - The Cisco switch must be configured to protect against or limit the effects of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by employing control plane protection.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

CISC-RT-000130 - The Cisco switch must be configured to restrict traffic destined to itself.
CISC-RT-000140 - The Cisco switch must be configured to drop all fragmented Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packets destined to itself - external
CISC-RT-000140 - The Cisco switch must be configured to drop all fragmented Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packets destined to itself - internal
CISC-RT-000150 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have Gratuitous ARP disabled on all external interfaces.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000160 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have IP directed broadcast disabled on all interfaces.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000170 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) unreachable messages disabled on all external interfaces - DODIN Backbone

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000170 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) unreachable messages disabled on all external interfaces - ip unreachables

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000190 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirect messages disabled on all external interfaces.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

CISC-RT-000200 - The Cisco switch must be configured to log all packets that have been dropped at interfaces via an ACL.
CISC-RT-000236 - The Cisco switch must be configured to advertise a hop limit of at least 32 in Switch Advertisement messages for IPv6 stateless auto-configuration deployments.
CISC-RT-000237 - The Cisco switch must not be configured to use IPv6 Site Local Unicast addresses.
CISC-RT-000240 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to deny network traffic by default and allow network traffic by exception - access-group in
CISC-RT-000240 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to deny network traffic by default and allow network traffic by exception - deny rule
CISC-RT-000250 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information between interconnected networks in accordance with applicable policy.
CISC-RT-000260 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to only allow incoming communications from authorized sources to be routed to authorized destinations.
CISC-RT-000270 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block inbound packets with source Bogon IP address prefixes - access-group in
CISC-RT-000270 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block inbound packets with source Bogon IP address prefixes - deny 0.0.0.0
CISC-RT-000270 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block inbound packets with source Bogon IP address prefixes - deny 10.0.0.0
CISC-RT-000270 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block inbound packets with source Bogon IP address prefixes - deny 100.64.0.0
CISC-RT-000270 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block inbound packets with source Bogon IP address prefixes - deny 127.0.0.0
CISC-RT-000270 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block inbound packets with source Bogon IP address prefixes - deny 169.254.0.0
CISC-RT-000270 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block inbound packets with source Bogon IP address prefixes - deny 172.16.0.0
CISC-RT-000270 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block inbound packets with source Bogon IP address prefixes - deny 192.0.0.0
CISC-RT-000270 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block inbound packets with source Bogon IP address prefixes - deny 192.0.2.0
CISC-RT-000270 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block inbound packets with source Bogon IP address prefixes - deny 192.18.0.0
CISC-RT-000270 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block inbound packets with source Bogon IP address prefixes - deny 192.168.0.0
CISC-RT-000270 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block inbound packets with source Bogon IP address prefixes - deny 198.51.100.0
CISC-RT-000270 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block inbound packets with source Bogon IP address prefixes - deny 203.0.113.0
CISC-RT-000270 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block inbound packets with source Bogon IP address prefixes - deny 224.0.0.0
CISC-RT-000270 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block inbound packets with source Bogon IP address prefixes - deny 240.0.0.0
CISC-RT-000310 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to restrict it from accepting outbound IP packets that contain an illegitimate address in the source address field via egress filter or by enabling Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF).
CISC-RT-000320 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to filter traffic destined to the enclave in accordance with the guidelines contained in DoD Instruction 8551.1.
CISC-RT-000330 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to filter ingress traffic at the external interface on an inbound direction.