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V-216617CAT II — Medium severitySV-216617r531085_rule

The Cisco PE router must be configured with Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF) loose mode enabled on all CE-facing interfaces.

Rule version CISC-RT-000740 · STIG v3 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

The uRPF feature is a defense against spoofing and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by verifying if the source address of any ingress packet is reachable. To mitigate attacks that rely on forged source addresses, all provider edge routers must enable uRPF loose mode to guarantee that all packets received from a CE router contain source addresses that are in the route table.

Check

Review the router configuration to determine if uRPF loose mode is enabled on all CE-facing interfaces.

interface GigabitEthernet0/2 ip address x.1.12.2 255.255.255.252 ip access-group BLOCK_TO_CORE in ip verify unicast source reachable-via any

If uRPF loose mode is not enabled on all CE-facing interfaces, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure uRPF loose mode on all CE-facing interfaces as shown in the example below.

R2(config)#int R4(config)#int g0/2 R2(config-if)#ip verify unicast source reachable-via any R2(config-if)#end

Identifiers

Group ID
V-216617
Group title
SRG-NET-000205-RTR-000008
Rule ID
SV-216617r531085_rule
Check ID
C-17852r287223_chk
Fix ID
F-17848r287224_fix