STIGUI
V-216143CAT II — Medium severitySV-216143r959010_rule

The system must disable network routing unless required.

Rule version SOL-11.1-050130 · STIG v3 · 2026-08-19

Discussion

The network routing daemon, in.routed, manages network routing tables. If enabled, it periodically supplies copies of the system's routing tables to any directly connected hosts and networks and picks up routes supplied to it from other networks and hosts. Routing Internet Protocol (RIP) is a legacy protocol with a number of security weaknesses, including a lack of authentication, zoning, pruning, etc.

Check

Determine if routing is disabled.

# routeadm -p | egrep "routing |forwarding" | grep enabled

If the command output includes "persistent=enabled" or "current=enabled", this is a finding.

Fix

The Network Management profile is required.

Disable routing for IPv4 and IPv6.

# pfexec routeadm -d ipv4-forwarding -d ipv4-routing
# pfexec routeadm -d ipv6-forwarding -d ipv6-routing

To apply these changes to the running system, use the command:

# pfexec routeadm -u

Identifiers

Group ID
V-216143
Group title
SRG-OS-000480
Rule ID
SV-216143r959010_rule
Check ID
C-17381r372811_chk
Fix ID
F-17379r372812_fix