TMA-BIND-3.2

Restrict Recursive Queries

HighLevel 1Automatedbind

Description

A recursive DNS query is your typical DNS query from a client to a caching DNS server. It places the burden of finding the answer on the caching DNS server which will recursively query other DNS servers authoritative for the domains, until it gets the answer which is then returned to the client. The audit passes when the global options set "recursion no;" or an allow-recursion list that does not contain any. The audit parses the effective configuration printed by named-checkconf -p (all include files resolved) from /etc/named.conf (RHEL; chroot /var/named/chroot is detected) or /etc/bind/named.conf (Debian/Ubuntu).

How it is checked

Audit method: Shell command

shell

if [ -f /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf ]; then out=$(named-checkconf -t /var/named/chroot -p /etc/named.conf 2>/dev/null) || exit 1
else conf=/etc/named.conf; [ -f "$conf" ] || conf=/etc/bind/named.conf
  out=$(named-checkconf -p "$conf" 2>/dev/null) || exit 1; fi
flat=$(printf '%s\n' "$out" | tr '\t\n' '  ' | tr -s ' ')
opts=$(printf '%s\n' "$out" | awk '/^options[ \t]*\{/{f=1} f{print} f&&/^\};/{exit}' | tr '\t\n' '  ' | tr -s ' ')
if printf '%s\n' "$opts" | grep -Eq '[{; ]recursion no;'; then echo compliant; exit 0; fi
ar=$(printf '%s\n' "$opts" | grep -Eo 'allow-recursion \{[^}]*\}') || { echo 'recursion enabled without allow-recursion'; exit 1; }
printf '%s\n' "$ar" | grep -Eq '[{ ]"?any"?;' && { echo 'allow-recursion contains any'; exit 1; }
echo compliant

Expected output: compliant

How it is fixed

Fix method: Guidance or infrastructure patch

Authoritative Name Server: For an authoritative name server, insert one of the following either into the global options or into every zone section. allow-recursion { localhost; }; recursion no; Caching Name Server: ; Define an ACL named trusted_clients which will identify the networks which are expected to use the DNS caching server, and will be allowed to send recursive DNS queries. acl trusted_clients { 10.19.4.0/28; . . . } ; Insert the following into the global options. allow-recursion { localhost; trusted_clients };

Properties

Operating systems: Any
Tags: binddnsaccess-control
Reference: CIS ISC BIND DNS Server 9.11 Benchmark v1.0.0 - 3.2 Restrict Recursive Queries

Check this host

Run this on a machine you are allowed to audit. The scan is read-only.

shell

tmaegis scan --target bind