The DNS server implementation must uniquely identify the other DNS server before responding to a server-to-server transaction.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-205169	SRG-APP-000158	SRG-APP-000158-DNS-000015	SV-205169r960999_rule	2024-07-02	4

Description
Without identifying devices, unidentified or unknown devices may be introduced, thereby facilitating malicious activity. This applies to server-to-server (zone transfer) transactions only and is provided by TSIG/SIG(0), which enforces mutual server authentication using a key that is unique to each server pair (TSIG) or using PKI-based authentication (SIG(0)), thus uniquely identifying the other server.

Description

Without identifying devices, unidentified or unknown devices may be introduced, thereby facilitating malicious activity. This applies to server-to-server (zone transfer) transactions only and is provided by TSIG/SIG(0), which enforces mutual server authentication using a key that is unique to each server pair (TSIG) or using PKI-based authentication (SIG(0)), thus uniquely identifying the other server.

ℹ️ Check
Review the DNS server implementation configuration to determine if it validates other DNS servers' unique identify, through the use TSIG or SIG(0), when accepting server-to-server (zone transfer) transactions from the other DNS servers. If the DNS server does not validate other DNS servers' unique identity, through the use of either TSIG or SIG(0), when accepting server-to-server (zone transfer) transactions from those other DNS servers, this is a finding.

ℹ️ Check

Review the DNS server implementation configuration to determine if it validates other DNS servers' unique identify, through the use TSIG or SIG(0), when accepting server-to-server (zone transfer) transactions from the other DNS servers. If the DNS server does not validate other DNS servers' unique identity, through the use of either TSIG or SIG(0), when accepting server-to-server (zone transfer) transactions from those other DNS servers, this is a finding.

✔️ Fix
Configure the DNS server to verify another DNS server's unique identify, through the use of TSIG or SIG(0), when accepting server-to-server (zone transfer) transactions from other DNS servers.