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DISA STIG Cisco NX-OS Switch RTR v2r3

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Audit Details

Name: DISA STIG Cisco NX-OS Switch RTR v2r3

Updated: 8/28/2024

Authority: DISA STIG

Plugin: Cisco

Revision: 1.4

Estimated Item Count: 81

File Details

Filename: DISA_STIG_Cisco_NX-OS_Switch_RTR_v2r3.audit

Size: 283 kB

MD5: 43f3b6018c0057620a8a95c93417c4b6
SHA256: 68b3cf98aff0061abc8838393cd41d6deef52ed72c9ed9fddcc4e29c7e2537de

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.
CISC-RT-000030 - The Cisco switch must be configured to use keys with a duration not exceeding 180 days for authenticating routing protocol messages.
CISC-RT-000040 - The Cisco switch must be configured to use encryption for routing protocol authentication.
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.
CISC-RT-000060 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have all inactive layer 3 interfaces disabled.
CISC-RT-000070 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have all non-essential capabilities disabled.
CISC-RT-000080 - The Cisco switch must not be configured to have any feature enabled that calls home to the vendor.
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.
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 - ICMP packets destined to itself
CISC-RT-000150 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have Gratuitous ARP disabled on all external interfaces.
CISC-RT-000160 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have IP directed broadcast disabled on all interfaces.
CISC-RT-000170 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) unreachable messages disabled on all external interfaces - ICMP unreachable messages disabled on all external interfaces
CISC-RT-000190 - The Cisco switch must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirect messages disabled on all external interfaces.
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.
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.
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.
CISC-RT-000340 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to filter egress traffic at the internal interface on an inbound direction.
CISC-RT-000350 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block all packets with any IP options.
CISC-RT-000360 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to have Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) disabled on all external interfaces.
CISC-RT-000370 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to have Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) disabled on all external interfaces.
CISC-RT-000380 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to have Proxy ARP disabled on all external interfaces.
CISC-RT-000390 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to block all outbound management traffic.
CISC-RT-000391 - The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to suppress Router Advertisements on all external IPv6-enabled interfaces.
CISC-RT-000450 - The Cisco switch must be configured to only permit management traffic that ingresses and egresses the out-of-band management (OOBM) interface.
CISC-RT-000470 - The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to check whether a single-hop eBGP peer is directly connected.
CISC-RT-000480 - The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to use a unique key for each autonomous system (AS) that it peers with.
CISC-RT-000490 - The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements for any Bogon prefixes.
CISC-RT-000500 - The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements for any prefixes belonging to the local autonomous system (AS) - AS
CISC-RT-000510 - The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements from a customer edge (CE) switch for prefixes that are not allocated to that customer.
CISC-RT-000520 - The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to reject outbound route advertisements for any prefixes that do not belong to any customers or the local autonomous system (AS).
CISC-RT-000530 - The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to reject outbound route advertisements for any prefixes belonging to the IP core.
CISC-RT-000540 - The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to reject route advertisements from BGP peers that do not list their autonomous system (AS) number as the first AS in the AS_PATH attribute.
CISC-RT-000550 - The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to reject route advertisements from CE switches with an originating AS in the AS_PATH attribute that does not belong to that customer.
CISC-RT-000560 - The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to use the maximum prefixes feature to protect against route table flooding and prefix de-aggregation attacks.
CISC-RT-000570 - 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.
CISC-RT-000580 - The Cisco BGP switch must be configured to use its loopback address as the source address for iBGP peering sessions.
CISC-RT-000590 - The Cisco MPLS switch must be configured to use its loopback address as the source address for LDP peering sessions.
CISC-RT-000600 - The Cisco MPLS switch must be configured to synchronize Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) and LDP to minimize packet loss when an IGP adjacency is established prior to LDP peers completing label exchange - IGP and LDP to minimize packet loss when an IGP adjacency is established prior to LDP peers completing label exchange
CISC-RT-000600 - The Cisco MPLS switch must be configured to synchronize Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) and LDP to minimize packet loss when an IGP adjacency is established prior to LDP peers completing label exchange.
CISC-RT-000610 - The MPLS switch with RSVP-TE enabled must be configured with message pacing to adjust maximum burst and maximum number of RSVP messages to an output queue based on the link speed and input queue size of adjacent core switches.
CISC-RT-000620 - The Cisco MPLS switch must be configured to have TTL Propagation disabled.