STIGUI
V-237759CAT II — Medium severitySV-237759r648792_rule

The Cisco perimeter switch must be configured to suppress Router Advertisements on all external IPv6-enabled interfaces.

Rule version CISC-RT-000391 · STIG v3 · 2026-03-04

Discussion

Many of the known attacks in stateless autoconfiguration are defined in RFC 3756 were present in IPv4 ARP attacks. To mitigate these vulnerabilities, links that have no hosts connected such as the interface connecting to external gateways must be configured to suppress router advertisements.

Check

This requirement is not applicable for the DODIN Backbone.

Review the switch configuration to verify that Router Advertisements are suppressed on all external IPv6-enabled interfaces as shown in the example below.

interface gigabitethernet1/0 ipv6 address 2001::1:0:22/64 ipv6 nd ra suppress

If the switch is not configured to suppress Router Advertisements on all external IPv6-enabled interfaces, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the switch to suppress Router Advertisements on all external IPv6-enabled interfaces as shown in the example below.

SW1(config)#int g1/0 SW1(config-if)#ipv6 nd ra suppress SW1(config-if)#end

Identifiers

Group ID
V-237759
Group title
SRG-NET-000512-RTR-000014
Rule ID
SV-237759r648792_rule
Check ID
C-40974r648789_chk
Fix ID
F-40936r648790_fix