STIGUI
V-216371CAT III — Low severitySV-216371r959010_rule

The system must not respond to ICMP broadcast netmask requests.

Rule version SOL-11.1-050040 · STIG v3 · 2026-08-19

Discussion

By determining the netmasks of various computers in your network, an attacker can better map your subnet structure and infer trust relationships.

Check

Determine if the response to address mask broadcast is disabled.

# ipadm show-prop -p _respond_to_address_mask_broadcast -co current ip

If the output of this command is not "0", this is a finding.

Fix

The Network Management profile is required.

Disable responses to address mask broadcast.

# pfexec ipadm set-prop -p _respond_to_address_mask_broadcast=0 ip

Identifiers

Group ID
V-216371
Group title
SRG-OS-000480
Rule ID
SV-216371r959010_rule
Check ID
C-17607r371201_chk
Fix ID
F-17605r371202_fix