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V-220146CAT II — Medium severitySV-220146r604135_rule

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

Rule version SRG-NET-000512-RTR-000014 · STIG v5 · 2025-09-10

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 router configuration to verify Router Advertisements are suppressed on all external IPv6-enabled interfaces.

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

Fix

Configure the router to suppress Router Advertisements on all external IPv6-enabled interfaces.

Identifiers

Group ID
V-220146
Group title
SRG-NET-000512
Rule ID
SV-220146r604135_rule
Check ID
C-21861r457765_chk
Fix ID
F-21853r457766_fix