Cisco Catalyst 4506-E with Supervisor Card (WS-X45-SUP8-E) and Line Cards (WS-X4748-RJ45-E and WS-X4748-RJ45V+E)

Certificate

Module description

Catalyst 4500 Series switches are Cisco`s leading modular switches for borderless access and price/performance distribution deployments. They offer best-in-class investment protection with forward and backward compatibility and deep application visibility with Flexible NetFlow. The Catalyst 4500 series switch meets FIPS 140-2 overall Level 1 requirements as multi-chip standalone module. The switch includes cryptographic algorithms implemented in IOS-XE software as well as hardware ASICs. The module provides 802.1X-rev.

Security level exceptions

• Roles, Services, and Authentication: Level 2
• Mitigation of Other Attacks: N/A

Approved algorithms

Other algorithms

AES (Cert. #4018, key wrapping; key establishment methodology provides 128 or 256 bits of encryption strength); Diffie-Hellman (key agreement; key establishment methodology provides between 112 and 150 bits of encryption strength; non-compliant less than 112 bits of encryption strength); HMAC-MD5; MD5; NDRNG; RSA (key wrapping; key establishment methodology provides 112 bits of encryption strength; non-compliant less than 112 bits of encryption strength); DES; RC4

Tested configurations

• N/A

Validation history

Status timeline

As observed by this tracker's snapshots. NIST publishes no dates for list moves; observation began 2026-08-21, so earlier changes carry no date.

• 2026-08-21: first observed by this tracker, status historical
• Validation dates on record: 2016-10-17

Source documents

• NIST certificate page
• Security policy (PDF)
• Consolidated certificate (PDF)