STIGUI
V-216135CAT II — Medium severitySV-216135r959010_rule

The system must not respond to broadcast ICMP echo requests.

Rule version SOL-11.1-050050 · STIG v3 · 2026-08-19

Discussion

ICMP echo requests can be useful for reconnaissance of systems and for denial of service attacks.

Check

Determine if ICMP echo requests response is disabled.

# ipadm show-prop -p _respond_to_echo_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 echo broadcast.

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

Identifiers

Group ID
V-216135
Group title
SRG-OS-000480
Rule ID
SV-216135r959010_rule
Check ID
C-17373r372787_chk
Fix ID
F-17371r372788_fix