cis-bind9-v301-5-3

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Securely Authenticate Update Forwarding (Scored)

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CIS 5.3 — Securely Authenticate Update Forwarding

Profile Applicability

Level 1 - Authoritative Name Server

Description

A secondary authoritative name server is allowed to accept zone updates on behalf of the primary name server, and forward them to the master name server, where the zone file can be updated. In this case, the authentication of the dynamic updates is configured with the allow-update-forwarding option. The update requests must be securely authenticated with a key identifier, rather than by an IP address. The key identifier may specify a TSIG key, a GSS-TSIG, or a SIG(0) key.

Rationale

Of course, allowing unauthenticated updates to a zone should not be allowed. It is necessary for the secondary authoritative name server to carefully authenticate the update request before sending it on to the primary name server, to prevent malicious DNS updates be propagated via the secondary server.

Impact

None noted.

Audit Procedure

Search for the allow-update-forwarding option in all of the included configuration files, and in the zone files. If any allow-update-forwarding options are present, then verify that there are no IP addresses or networks used for authentication. Instead a key identifier should be used, or the value none may be used to disable dynamic updates. Note that the key identifiers, may reference a TSIG key, GSS-TSIG key or SIG(0) key. Use the grep command below to search for allow-update-forwarding options, and verify that either key identifiers or the value none are used in each.

# grep allow-update-forwarding $CONFIG_FILES $ZONE_FILES
/etc/named.conf: allow-update-forwarding { none; };
/. . ./dyn.internal.org: allow-update-forwarding { key dhcp-server.internal.org.; };

Remediation

Modify any allow-update-forwarding options to specify a securely generated TSIG or SIG(0) key identifier used by the DHCP server.

Default Value

Dynamic updates are disabled by default.

References

None listed.

CIS Controls

Controls Version	Control	IG 1	IG 2	IG 3
v6	9 - Limitation and Control of Network Ports, Protocols, and Services	Y	Y	Y

MITRE ATT&CK Mappings

Tactic	Technique
Impact	T1565 - Data Manipulation
Impact	T1565.002 - Transmitted Data Manipulation

Profile

Level 1 - Authoritative Name Server