DISA BIND 9.x STIG v2r3

Audit Details

Name: DISA BIND 9.x STIG v2r3

Updated: 6/17/2024

Authority: DISA STIG

Plugin: Unix

Revision: 1.1

Estimated Item Count: 71

File Details

Filename: DISA_STIG_BIND_9_v2r3.audit

Size: 210 kB

MD5: e65602593d27c72219d7ea0c962a457f
SHA256: 11ccebddd83dc3c314f1c8ec1ef7eac06f3e55363b59f44795bc035a02b8ee8f

Audit Items

DescriptionCategories
BIND-9X-000001 - A BIND 9.x server implementation must be running in a chroot(ed) directory structure.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

BIND-9X-001000 - A BIND 9.x server implementation must be operating on a Current-Stable version as defined by ISC.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

BIND-9X-001002 - The platform on which the name server software is hosted must only run processes and services needed to support the BIND 9.x implementation.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

BIND-9X-001003 - The BIND 9.x server software must run with restricted privileges.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

BIND-9X-001004 - The host running a BIND 9.X implementation must implement a set of firewall rules that restrict traffic on the DNS interface.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

BIND-9X-001005 - The host running a BIND 9.x implementation must use a dedicated management interface in order to separate management traffic from DNS specific traffic.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

BIND-9X-001006 - The host running a BIND 9.x implementation must use an interface that is configured to process only DNS traffic.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

BIND-9X-001010 - A BIND 9.x server implementation must be configured to allow DNS administrators to audit all DNS server components, based on selectable event criteria, and produce audit records within all DNS server components that contain information for failed security verification tests, information to establish the outcome and source of the events, any information necessary to determine cause of failure, and any information necessary to return to operations with least disruption to mission processes.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY, SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION, SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY

BIND-9X-001017 - The BIND 9.x server implementation must not be configured with a channel to send audit records to null.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

BIND-9X-001020 - The BIND 9.x server logging configuration must be configured to generate audit records for all DoD-defined auditable events to a local file by enabling triggers for all events with a severity of info, notice, warning, error, and critical for all DNS components.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

BIND-9X-001021 - In the event of an error when validating the binding of other DNS servers identity to the BIND 9.x information, when anomalies in the operation of the signed zone transfers are discovered, for the success and failure of start and stop of the name server service or daemon, and for the success and failure of all name server events, a BIND 9.x server implementation must generate a log entry.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY, CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT, SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY

BIND-9X-001030 - The print-severity variable for the configuration of BIND 9.x server logs must be configured to produce audit records containing information to establish what type of events occurred.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

BIND-9X-001031 - The print-time variable for the configuration of BIND 9.x server logs must be configured to establish when (date and time) the events occurred.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

BIND-9X-001032 - The print-category variable for the configuration of BIND 9.x server logs must be configured to record information indicating which process generated the events.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

BIND-9X-001040 - The BIND 9.x server implementation must be configured with a channel to send audit records to a remote syslog.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

BIND-9X-001041 - The BIND 9.x server implementation must be configured with a channel to send audit records to a local file.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

BIND-9X-001042 - The BIND 9.x server implementation must maintain at least 3 file versions of the local log file.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

BIND-9X-001050 - The BIND 9.x secondary name server must limit the number of zones requested from a single master name server.

ACCESS CONTROL

BIND-9X-001051 - The BIND 9.x secondary name server must limit the total number of zones the name server can request at any one time.

ACCESS CONTROL

BIND-9X-001052 - The BIND 9.x server implementation must limit the number of concurrent session client connections to the number of allowed dynamic update clients.

ACCESS CONTROL

BIND-9X-001053 - The BIND 9.x server implementation must be configured to use only approved ports and protocols.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

BIND-9X-001054 - A BIND 9.x server implementation must manage excess capacity, bandwidth, or other redundancy to limit the effects of information flooding types of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

BIND-9X-001055 - A BIND 9.x server implementation must prohibit recursion on authoritative name servers.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT, SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

BIND-9X-001057 - The master servers in a BIND 9.x implementation must notify authorized secondary name servers when zone files are updated.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

BIND-9X-001058 - The secondary name servers in a BIND 9.x implementation must be configured to initiate zone update notifications to other authoritative zone name servers.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

BIND-9X-001059 - On the BIND 9.x server the platform on which the name server software is hosted must be configured to send outgoing DNS messages from a random port.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

BIND-9X-001060 - A BIND 9.x caching name server must implement DNSSEC validation to check all DNS queries for invalid input.

SYSTEM AND INFORMATION INTEGRITY

BIND-9X-001070 - A BIND 9.x master name server must limit the number of concurrent zone transfers between authorized secondary name servers.

ACCESS CONTROL

BIND-9X-001080 - A BIND 9.x implementation configured as a caching name server must restrict recursive queries to only the IP addresses and IP address ranges of known supported clients.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

BIND-9X-001100 - The BIND 9.x server implementation must uniquely identify and authenticate the other DNS server before responding to a server-to-server transaction, zone transfer and/or dynamic update request using cryptographically based bidirectional authentication to protect the integrity of the information in transit.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION, SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

BIND-9X-001106 - The BIND 9.x server implementation must utilize separate TSIG key-pairs when securing server-to-server transactions.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

BIND-9X-001110 - The TSIG keys used with the BIND 9.x implementation must be owned by a privileged account.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

BIND-9X-001111 - The TSIG keys used with the BIND 9.x implementation must be group owned by a privileged account.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

BIND-9X-001112 - The read and write access to a TSIG key file used by a BIND 9.x server must be restricted to only the account that runs the name server software.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

BIND-9X-001113 - The BIND 9.X implementation must not utilize a TSIG or DNSSEC key for more than one year.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

BIND-9X-001120 - A BIND 9.x server must implement NIST FIPS-validated cryptography for provisioning digital signatures and generating cryptographic hashes.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

BIND-9X-001130 - The DNSSEC keys used with the BIND 9.x implementation must be owned by a privileged account.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

BIND-9X-001131 - The DNSSEC keys used with the BIND 9.x implementation must be group owned by a privileged account.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

BIND-9X-001132 - Permissions assigned to the DNSSEC keys used with the BIND 9.x implementation must enforce read-only access to the key owner and deny access to all other users.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

BIND-9X-001133 - The BIND 9.x server private key corresponding to the ZSK pair must be the only DNSSEC key kept on a name server that supports dynamic updates.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

BIND-9X-001134 - On the BIND 9.x server the private keys corresponding to both the ZSK and the KSK must not be kept on the BIND 9.x DNSSEC-aware primary authoritative name server when the name server does not support dynamic updates.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

BIND-9X-001140 - The two files generated by the BIND 9.x server dnssec-keygen program must be owned by the root account, or deleted, after they have been copied to the key file in the name server.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

BIND-9X-001141 - The two files generated by the BIND 9.x server dnssec-keygen program must be group owned by the server administrator account, or deleted, after they have been copied to the key file in the name server.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

BIND-9X-001142 - Permissions assigned to the dnssec-keygen keys used with the BIND 9.x implementation must enforce read-only access to the key owner and deny access to all other users.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

BIND-9X-001150 - The BIND 9.x server signature generation using the KSK must be done off-line, using the KSK-private key stored off-line.

IDENTIFICATION AND AUTHENTICATION

BIND-9X-001200 - A BIND 9.x server implementation must maintain the integrity and confidentiality of DNS information while it is being prepared for transmission, in transmission, and in use and t must perform integrity verification and data origin verification for all DNS information.

AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY, SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

BIND-9X-001310 - A BIND 9.x server implementation must provide the means to indicate the security status of child zones.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

BIND-9X-001311 - The BIND 9.x server validity period for the RRSIGs covering the DS RR for zones delegated children must be no less than two days and no more than one week.

SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

BIND-9X-001320 - The core BIND 9.x server files must be owned by the root or BIND 9.x process account.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

BIND-9X-001321 - The core BIND 9.x server files must be group owned by a group designated for DNS administration only.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT