The BGP router must be configured to enable the Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM).

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
low	V-216985	SRG-NET-000362	SRG-NET-000362-RTR-000124	SV-216985r856661_rule	2024-05-28	5

Description
GTSM is designed to protect a router's IP-based control plane from DoS attacks. Many attacks focused on CPU load and line-card overload can be prevented by implementing GTSM on all Exterior Border Gateway Protocol speaking routers. GTSM is based on the fact that the vast majority of control plane peering is established between adjacent routers; that is, the Exterior Border Gateway Protocol peers are either between connecting interfaces or between loopback interfaces. Since TTL spoofing is considered nearly impossible, a mechanism based on an expected TTL value provides a simple and reasonably robust defense from infrastructure attacks based on forged control plane traffic.

Description

GTSM is designed to protect a router's IP-based control plane from DoS attacks. Many attacks focused on CPU load and line-card overload can be prevented by implementing GTSM on all Exterior Border Gateway Protocol speaking routers. GTSM is based on the fact that the vast majority of control plane peering is established between adjacent routers; that is, the Exterior Border Gateway Protocol peers are either between connecting interfaces or between loopback interfaces. Since TTL spoofing is considered nearly impossible, a mechanism based on an expected TTL value provides a simple and reasonably robust defense from infrastructure attacks based on forged control plane traffic.

ℹ️ Check
Review the router configuration. If the router is not configured to use GTSM for all Exterior Border Gateway Protocol peering sessions, this is a finding.

✔️ Fix
Configure all Exterior Border Gateway Protocol peering sessions to use GTSM.