Vulnerability V-215833

Review the Cisco router configuration to verify that all network connections associated with a device management have an idle timeout value set to five minutes or less as shown in the following example: ip http secure-server ip http timeout-policy idle 300 life nnnn requests nn … … … line con 0 exec-timeout 5 0 line vty 0 1 exec-timeout 5 0 If the Cisco router is not configured to terminate all network connections associated with a device management after five minutes of inactivity, this is a finding.

Set the idle timeout value to five minutes or less on all configured login classes as shown in the example below. R1(config)#line vty 0 1 R1(config-line)#exec-timeout 5 0 R1(config-line)#exit R1(config)#line con 0 R1(config-line)#exec-timeout 5 0 R1(config-line)#exit R2(config)#ip http timeout-policy idle 300 life nnnn requests nn