STIGUI
V-220795CAT II — Medium severitySV-220795r991589_rule

IPv6 source routing must be configured to highest protection.

Rule version WN10-CC-000020 · STIG v3 · 2025-09-24

Discussion

Configuring the system to disable IPv6 source routing protects against spoofing.

Check

If the following registry value does not exist or is not configured as specified, this is a finding:

Registry Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Registry Path: \SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters\

Value Name: DisableIpSourceRouting

Value Type: REG_DWORD Value: 2

Fix

Configure the policy value for Computer Configuration >> Administrative Templates >> MSS (Legacy) >> "MSS: (DisableIPSourceRouting IPv6) IP source routing protection level (protects against packet spoofing)" to "Highest protection, source routing is completely disabled".

This policy setting requires the installation of the MSS-Legacy custom templates included with the STIG package. "MSS-Legacy.admx" and " MSS-Legacy.adml" must be copied to the \Windows\PolicyDefinitions and \Windows\PolicyDefinitions\en-US directories respectively.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-220795
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-220795r991589_rule
Check ID
C-22510r554870_chk
Fix ID
F-22499r554871_fix