STIGUI
V-253353CAT II — Medium severitySV-253353r1268251_rule

IPv6 source routing must be configured to highest protection.

Rule version WN11-CC-000020 · STIG v2 · 2026-09-01

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-253353
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-253353r1268251_rule
Check ID
C-56806r829141_chk
Fix ID
F-56756r829142_fix