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RUCKUS ICX Router Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R1

Release Date

Jun 3, 2025

SCAP Benchmark ID

RUCKUS_ICX_RTR_STIG

Total Checks

81

Tags

network
CAT I: 6CAT II: 53CAT III: 22

This Security Technical Implementation Guide is published as a tool to improve the security of Department of Defense (DOD) information systems. The requirements are derived from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53 and related documents. Comments or proposed revisions to this document should be sent via email to the following address: disa.stig_spt@mail.mil.

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V-273569MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX router must be configured to enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information within the network based on organization-defined information flow control policies.V-273570MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX BGP router must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements for any Bogon prefixes.V-273571MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX BGP router must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements for any prefixes belonging to the local autonomous system (AS).V-273572MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX BGP router must be configured to reject inbound route advertisements from a customer edge (CE) router for prefixes that are not allocated to that customer.V-273573MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX BGP router must be configured to reject outbound route advertisements for any prefixes that do not belong to any customer or the local autonomous system (AS).V-273574LOWThe RUCKUS ICX BGP router must be configured to reject route advertisements from BGP peers that do not list their autonomous system (AS) number as the first AS in the AS_PATH attribute.V-273575LOWThe RUCKUS ICX Multicast Source Discovery Protocol router must be configured to filter received source-active multicast advertisements for any undesirable multicast groups and sources.V-273576LOWThe RUCKUS ICX Multicast Source Discovery Protocol router must be configured to filter source-active multicast advertisements to external MSDP peers to avoid global visibility of local-only multicast sources and groups.V-273577LOWThe RUCKUS ICX MSDP router must be configured to limit the amount of source-active messages it accepts on a per peer basis.V-273578LOWThe RUCKUS ICX BGP router must be configured to reject route advertisements from CE routers with an originating AS in the AS_PATH attribute that does not belong to that customer.V-273580MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX perimeter router must be configured to enforce approved authorizations for controlling the flow of information between interconnected networks in accordance with applicable policy.V-273581MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX multicast router must be configured to disable Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) on all interfaces that are not required to support multicast routing.V-273582MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX multicast router must be configured to bind a Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) neighbor filter to interfaces that have PIM enabled.V-273583LOWThe RUCKUS ICX multicast edge router must be configured to establish boundaries for administratively scoped multicast traffic.V-273584LOWThe RUCKUS ICX router must be configured to have all inactive interfaces disabled.V-273585HIGHThe RUCKUS ICX perimeter router must be configured to protect an enclave connected to an alternate gateway by using an inbound filter that only permits packets with destination addresses within the site's address space.V-273586HIGHThe RUCKUS ICX perimeter router must be configured to not be a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) peer to an alternate gateway service provider.V-273587LOWThe RUCKUS ICX perimeter router must be configured to not redistribute static routes to an alternate gateway service provider into BGP or an IGP peering with the NIPRNet or to other autonomous systems.V-273588MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX out-of-band management (OOBM) gateway router must be configured to have separate Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) instances for the managed network and management network.V-273589MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX out-of-band management (OOBM) gateway router must be configured to not redistribute routes between the management network routing domain and the managed network routing domain.V-273590LOWThe RUCKUS ICX multicast Rendezvous Pointerface (RP) router must be configured to filter Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Register messages received from the Designated Router (DR) for any undesirable multicast groups and sources.V-273591LOWThe RUCKUS ICX multicast Rendezvous Pointerface (RP) router must be configured to filter Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Join messages received from the Designated Router (DR) for any undesirable multicast groups.V-273594LOWThe RUCKUS ICX router must be configured to log all packets that have been dropped.V-273596MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX router must not be configured to have any feature enabled that calls home to the vendor.V-273597MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX router must be configured to authenticate all routing protocol messages using NIST-validated FIPS 198-1 message authentication code algorithm.V-273601MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX PE router must be configured to enforce a Quality-of-Service (QoS) policy to limit the effects of packet flooding denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.V-273602LOWThe RUCKUS ICX PE router must be configured to enforce a Quality-of-Service (QoS) policy in accordance with the QoS DODIN Technical Profile.V-273603LOWThe RUCKUS ICX P router must be configured to enforce a Quality-of-Service (QoS) policy in accordance with the QoS GIG Technical Profile.V-273604HIGHThe RUCKUS ICX perimeter router must be configured to deny network traffic by default and allow network traffic by exception.V-273605HIGHThe RUCKUS ICX router must be configured to restrict traffic destined to itself.V-273606MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX router must be configured to drop all fragmented Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packets destined to itself.V-273607MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX perimeter router must be configured to filter traffic destined to the enclave in accordance with the guidelines contained in DOD Instruction 8551.1.V-273608MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX perimeter router must be configured to filter ingress traffic at the external interface on an inbound direction.V-273609MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX perimeter router must be configured to filter egress traffic at the internal interface on an inbound direction.V-273610MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX BGP router must be configured to reject outbound route advertisements for any prefixes belonging to the IP core.V-273611HIGHThe RUCKUS ICX PE router must be configured to block any traffic destined to IP core infrastructure.V-273612MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX PE router must be configured with Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF) loose mode enabled on all CE-facing interfaces.V-273613MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX management network gateway must be configured to transport management traffic to the Network Operations Center (NOC) via dedicated circuit.V-273614MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX out-of-band management (OOBM) gateway router must be configured to forward only authorized management traffic to the Network Operations Center (NOC).V-273615MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX out-of-band management (OOBM) gateway router must be configured to block any traffic destined to itself that is not sourced from the OOBM network or the Network Operations Center (NOC).V-273616MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX router must be configured to only permit management traffic that ingresses and egresses the OOBM interface.V-273618HIGHThe RUCKUS ICX perimeter router must be configured to restrict it from accepting outbound IP packets that contain an illegitimate address in the source address field via egress filter or by enabling Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF).V-273619MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX perimeter router must be configured to block all packets with any IP options.V-273620MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX PE router must be configured to ignore or block all packets with any IP options.V-273621MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX router must be configured to implement message authentication for all control plane protocols.V-273622MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX BGP router must be configured to use a unique key for each autonomous system (AS) that it peers with.V-273623MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX router must be configured to use keys with a duration not exceeding 180 days for authenticating routing protocol messages.V-273626MEDIUMThe RUCKUS Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to authenticate all received MSDP packets.V-273627MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX Router must not be configured to have any zero-touch deployment feature enabled when connected to an operational network.V-273628MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX router must be configured to protect against or limit the effects of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by employing control plane protection.V-273629MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX router must be configured to have Gratuitous Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) disabled on all external interfaces.V-273630LOWThe RUCKUS ICX router must be configured to have IP directed broadcast disabled on all interfaces.V-273631MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX router must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) unreachable notifications disabled on all external interfaces.V-273632MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX router must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) mask replies disabled on all external interfaces.V-273633MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX router must be configured to have Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) redirects disabled on all external interfaces.V-273634MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX BGP router must be configured to use the maximum prefixes feature to protect against route table flooding and prefix de-aggregation attacks.V-273635LOWThe RUCKUS ICX BGP router must be configured to limit the prefix size on any inbound route advertisement to /24 or the least significant prefixes issued to the customer.V-273637LOWThe RUCKUS ICX multicast Rendezvous Pointerface (RP) Router must be configured to limit the multicast forwarding cache so that its resources are not saturated by managing an overwhelming number of Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) and Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) source-active entries.V-273638MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX multicast Rendezvous Pointerface (RP) must be configured to rate limit the number of Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Register messages.V-273639MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX Router must be configured to limit the number of mroute states resulting from Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Host Membership Reports.V-273640MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX multicast Designated Router (DR) must be configured to increase the shortest-path tree (SPT) threshold or set it to infinity to minimalize source-group (S, G) state within the multicast topology where Any Source Multicast (ASM) is deployed.V-273641LOWThe RUCKUS ICX BGP router must be configured to enable the Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM).V-273642MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX perimeter router must be configured to only allow incoming communications from authorized sources to be routed to authorized destinations.V-273643MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX perimeter router must be configured to block inbound packets with source Bogon IP address prefixes.V-273644LOWThe RUCKUS ICX perimeter router must be configured to have Link Layer Discovery Protocols (LLDPs) disabled on all external interfaces.V-273645MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX perimeter router must be configured to have Proxy ARP disabled on all external interfaces.V-273646MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX perimeter router must be configured to block all outbound management traffic.V-273647LOWThe RUCKUS ICX multicast Designated Router (DR) must be configured to filter the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Report messages to allow hosts to join only multicast groups that have been approved by the organization.V-273648MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX multicast Designated Router (DR) must be configured to filter the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Report messages to allow hosts to join a multicast group only from sources that have been approved by the organization.V-273650MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX perimeter router must be configured to drop IPv6 undetermined transport packets.V-273651MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX perimeter router must be configured drop IPv6 packets with a Routing Header type 0, 1, or 3-255.V-273652MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX perimeter router must be configured to drop IPv6 packets containing a hop-by-hop and destination options header with invalid or undefined option type values.V-273654LOWThe RUCKUS ICX BGP Router must be configured to use its loopback address as the source address for internal border gateway protocol (iBGP) peering sessions.V-273660MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX Router must be configured to have each VRF with the appropriate Route Distinguisher (RD).V-273664LOWThe RUCKUS ICX Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) Router must be configured to use its loopback address when originating MSDP traffic.V-273665LOWThe RUCKUS ICX Router must be configured to advertise a hop limit of at least 32 in Router Advertisement messages for IPv6 stateless autoconfiguration deployments.V-273666MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX Router must not be configured to use IPv6 Site Local Unicast addresses.V-273667MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX Router must be configured to suppress Router Advertisements on all external IPv6-enabled interfaces.V-273669MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX router must employ organization-defined controls by type of denial of service (DoS) to achieve the DoS objective.V-273670MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX router must implement physically or logically separate subnetworks to isolate organization-defined critical system components and functions.V-273671MEDIUMThe RUCKUS ICX router must establish organization-defined alternate communications paths for system operations organizational command and control.