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Microsoft Windows Server Domain Name System (DNS) Security Technical Implementation Guide
SRG-APP-000213-DNS-000024
The Windows DNS Server must include data origin with authoritative data the system returns in response to external name/address resolution queries.
The Windows DNS Server must include data origin with authoritative data the system returns in response to external name/address resolution queries.
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The Windows DNS Server must include data origin with authoritative data the system returns in response to external name/address resolution queries.
Medium Severity
<VulnDiscussion>The underlying feature in the major threat associated with DNS query/response (i.e., forged response or response failure) is the integrity of DNS data returned in the response. The security objective is to verify the integrity of each response received. An integral part of integrity verification is to ensure valid data has originated from the right source. Establishing trust in the source is called data origin authentication. The security objectives, and consequently the security services, that are required for securing the DNS query/response transaction are data origin authentication and data integrity verification. The specification for a digital signature mechanism in the context of the DNS infrastructure is in IETF's DNSSEC standard. In DNSSEC, trust in the public key (for signature verification) of the source is established not by going to a third party or a chain of third parties (as in public key infrastructure [PKI] chaining), but by starting from a trusted zone (such as the root zone) and establishing the chain of trust down to the current source of response through successive verifications of signature of the public key of a child by its parent. The public key of the trusted zone is called the trust anchor.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>