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V-282689CAT II — Medium severitySV-282689r1201344_rule

TOSS 5 must use reverse path filtering on all IPv4 interfaces.

Rule version TOSS-05-000217 · STIG v1 · 2026-08-20

Discussion

Enabling reverse path filtering drops packets with source addresses that should not have been able to be received on the interface on which they were received. It must not be used on systems that are routers for complicated networks but is helpful for end hosts and routers serving small networks.

Check

Verify TOSS 5 uses reverse path filtering on all IPv4 interfaces using the following command:

$ sudo sysctl net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter

net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1

If the returned line does not have a value of "1", or a line is not returned, this is a finding.

Fix

Configure TOSS 5 to use reverse path filtering on all IPv4 interfaces.

Add or edit the following line in a single system configuration file, in the "/etc/sysctl.d/" directory:

net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1

Reload the system configuration files for the changes to take effect.

$ sudo sysctl --system

Identifiers

Group ID
V-282689
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-282689r1201344_rule
Check ID
C-87250r1201045_chk
Fix ID
F-87155r1201343_fix