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III - Administrative Sensitive

Rules and Groups employed by this XCCDF Profile

  • SRG-APP-000516-DNS-000078

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    Group
  • The Zone Signing Key (ZSK) rollover interval must be configured to less than two months.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;An attacker that has compromised a ZSK can use that key only during the KSK's signature validity interval. An attacker that h...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516-DNS-000084

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    Group
  • NSEC3 must be used for all internal DNS zones.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;To ensure that RRs associated with a query are really missing in a zone file and have not been removed in transit, the DNSSEC...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516-DNS-000085

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    Group
  • The Infoblox system must ensure each NS record in a zone file points to an active name server authoritative for the domain specified in that record.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Poorly constructed NS records pose a security risk because they create conditions under which an adversary might be able to p...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516-DNS-000087

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    Group
  • All authoritative name servers for a zone must be located on different network segments.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Most enterprises have an authoritative primary server and a host of authoritative secondary name servers. It is essential tha...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516-DNS-000089

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    Group
  • An authoritative name server must be configured to enable DNSSEC Resource Records.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The specification for a digital signature mechanism in the context of the DNS infrastructure is in IETF's DNSSEC standard. In...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516-DNS-000090

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    Group
  • Digital signature algorithm used for DNSSEC-enabled zones must be FIPS-compatible.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;The choice of digital signature algorithm will be based on recommended algorithms in well-known standards. NIST's Digital Sig...
    Rule High Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516-DNS-000091

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    Group
  • For zones split between the external and internal sides of a network, the RRs for the external hosts must be separate from the RRs for the internal hosts.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Authoritative name servers for an enterprise may be configured to receive requests from both external and internal clients. ...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516-DNS-000092

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    Group
  • In a split DNS configuration, where separate name servers are used between the external and internal networks, the external name server must be configured to not be reachable from inside resolvers.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Instead of having the same set of authoritative name servers serve different types of clients, an enterprise could have two d...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516-DNS-000093

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    Group
  • In a split DNS configuration, where separate name servers are used between the external and internal networks, the internal name server must be configured to not be reachable from outside resolvers.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Instead of having the same set of authoritative name servers serve different types of clients, an enterprise could have two d...
    Rule Medium Severity
  • SRG-APP-000516-DNS-000099

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    Group
  • The DNS implementation must enforce a Discretionary Access Control (DAC) policy that limits propagation of access rights.

    &lt;VulnDiscussion&gt;Discretionary Access Control (DAC) is based on the premise that individual users are "owners" of objects and therefore have d...
    Rule Medium Severity

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