cis-bind9-v301-2-5

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Set root Ownership of BIND Configuration Files (Automated)

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CIS 2.5 — Set root Ownership of BIND Configuration Files

Profile Applicability

Level 1 - Authoritative Name Server
Level 1 - Caching Only Name Server

Description

The configuration files in the ISC BIND directories should be owned by root. Of course, any files created at run time by BIND, such as pid files, log files and slave zone files will necessarily be owned by named.

Rationale

Restricting ownership of the configuration files provides defense in depth and will reduce the probability of unauthorized modifications to those important files. If there was a BIND vulnerability that allowed code execution as the named user, then the code would not be able modify the configuration files.

Impact

Not Applicable

Audit Procedure

Run the command below to ensure that all BIND configuration files are owned by root, except for those found in the run-time directories. Ensure that the BIND benchmark variables used below are set as described in the benchmark overview, as these variables identify the run-time directories. ($DYNDIR, $SLAVEDIR, $DATADIR, $RUNDIR, $LOGDIR, $TMPDIR) If a chroot'ed directory is not used, then $LOGDIR and $TMPDIR are not generally a subdirectory of $BIND_HOME, and the two directories may be omitted, however including them will not cause any errors or false positives.

# find $BIND_HOME -type f \! -user root | egrep -v \
\^$DYNDIR\|^\$SLAVEDIR\^$DATADIR\|^\$RUNDIR\|^\$LOGDIR\|^\$TMPDIR

There should be no files listed in the output from the find command.

Remediation

Perform the following:

Capture the output of the previous audit command to a file named nonroot-files.txt and review any files not owned by root to ensure the files are necessary and are not expected run-time files. Delete any unnecessary files, and ensure any run-time files are being created in the appropriate run-time directory.

# find $BIND_HOME -type f \! -user root | egrep -v \
\^$DYNDIR\|^\$SLAVEDIR\^$DATADIR\|^\$RUNDIR\|^\$LOGDIR\|^\$TMPDIR > \
$TMPDIR/nonroot-files.txt

The remaining non-run-time files should be changed to be owned by root, with a command like the following:

# cat $TMPDIR/nonroot-files.txt | xargs chown root
# rm $TMPDIR/nonroot-files.txt

Default Value

The default rpm has all configuration files owned by root.

References

Not Applicable

CIS Controls

Controls Version	Control	IG 1	IG 2	IG 3
v6	14.4 - Protect Information with Access Control Lists	Y	Y	Y

MITRE ATT&CK Mappings

Tactic	Technique
Defense Evasion	T1222 - File and Directory Permissions Modification
Persistence	T1546 - Event Triggered Execution

Profile

Level 1 - Authoritative Name Server
Level 1 - Caching Only Name Server