V-272423

Discussion

Any host that can query a resolving name server has the potential to poison the server's name cache or take advantage of other vulnerabilities that may be accessed through the query service. The best way to prevent this type of attack is to limit queries to internal hosts, which need to have this service available to them. To guard against poisoning, name servers authoritative for .mil domains must be separated functionally from name servers that resolve queries on behalf of internal clients. Organizations may achieve this separation by dedicating machines to each function or, if possible, by running two instances of the name server software on the same machine: one for the authoritative function and the other for the resolving function. In this design, each name server process may be bound to a different IP address or network interface to implement the required segregation.

Check Content

This check is only applicable to caching name servers.

Verify the allow-query and allow-recursion phrases are properly configured.

Inspect the "named.conf" file for the following:

allow-query {trustworthy_hosts;};
allow-recursion {trustworthy_hosts;};

The name of the ACL does not need to be "trustworthy_hosts", but the name must match the ACL name defined earlier in "named.conf" for this purpose. If not, this is a finding.

Verify noninternal IP addresses do not appear in either the referenced ACL (e.g., trustworthy_hosts) or directly in the statements themselves.

If noninternal IP addresses appear, this is a finding.