STIGUI
V-216637CAT III — Low severitySV-216637r1137903_rule

The Cisco Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to limit the amount of source-active messages it accepts on a per-peer basis.

Rule version CISC-RT-000940 · STIG v3 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

To reduce any risk of a denial-of-service (DoS) attack from a rogue or misconfigured MSDP router, the router must be configured to limit the number of source-active messages it accepts from each peer.

Check

Review the router configuration to determine if it is configured to limit the amount of source-active messages it accepts on a per-peer basis.

ip msdp peer x.1.28.2 remote-as nn ip msdp sa-filter in 10.1.28.2 list MSDP_SA_FILTER ip msdp sa-limit X.1.28.2 nnn

If the router is not configured to limit the source-active messages it accepts, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the router to limit the amount of source-active messages it accepts from each peer.

R8(config)#ip msdp sa-limit x.1.28.2 nnn

Identifiers

Group ID
V-216637
Group title
SRG-NET-000018-RTR-000009
Rule ID
SV-216637r1137903_rule
Check ID
C-17872r287280_chk
Fix ID
F-17868r287281_fix