STIGUI
V-216133CAT III — Low severitySV-216133r959010_rule

The system must not respond to ICMP broadcast timestamp requests.

Rule version SOL-11.1-050030 · STIG v3 · 2026-08-19

Discussion

By accurately determining the system's clock state, an attacker can more effectively attack certain time-based pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs) and the authentication systems that rely on them.

Check

Determine if response to ICMP broadcast timestamp requests is disabled.

# ipadm show-prop -p _respond_to_timestamp_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 respond to timestamp broadcasts.

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

Identifiers

Group ID
V-216133
Group title
SRG-OS-000480
Rule ID
SV-216133r959010_rule
Check ID
C-17371r372781_chk
Fix ID
F-17369r372782_fix