STIGUI
V-230043CAT II — Medium severitySV-230043r533001_rule

The Cisco router must not be configured to use IPv6 Site Local Unicast addresses.

Rule version CISC-RT-000237 · STIG v3 · 2025-08-19

Discussion

As currently defined, site local addresses are ambiguous and can be present in multiple sites. The address itself does not contain any indication of the site to which it belongs. The use of site-local addresses has the potential to adversely affect network security through leaks, ambiguity, and potential misrouting as documented in section 2 of RFC3879. RFC3879 formally deprecates the IPv6 site-local unicast prefix FEC0::/10 as defined in RFC3513.

Check

Review the router configuration to ensure FEC0::/10 IPv6 addresses are not defined.

If IPv6 Site Local Unicast addresses are defined, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the router using only authorized IPv6 addresses.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-230043
Group title
SRG-NET-000512-RTR-000013
Rule ID
SV-230043r533001_rule
Check ID
C-32353r647426_chk
Fix ID
F-32330r569546_fix