DPRIVE WG | T. Reddy |
Internet-Draft | McAfee |
Intended status: Standards Track | D. Wing |
Expires: July 12, 2020 | Citrix |
M. Richardson | |
Sandelman Software Works | |
M. Boucadair | |
Orange | |
January 09, 2020 |
A Bootstrapping Procedure to Discover and Authenticate DNS-over-(D)TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS Servers
draft-reddy-dprive-bootstrap-dns-server-06
This document specifies mechanisms to automatically bootstrap endpoints (e.g., hosts, Customer Equipment) to discover and authenticate DNS-over-(D)TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS servers provided by a local network.
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Traditionally a caching DNS server has been provided by local networks. This provides benefits such as low latency to reach that DNS server (owing to its network proximity to the endpoint). However, if an endpoint is configured to use Internet-hosted or public DNS-over-(D)TLS [RFC7858] [RFC8094] or DNS-over-HTTPS [RFC8484] servers, any available local DNS server cannot serve DNS requests from local endpoints. If public DNS servers are used instead of using local DNS servers, some operational problems can occur such as those listed below:
If public DNS servers are used instead of using local DNS servers, the following discusses the impact on network-based security:
If the network security service fails to block DNS-over-(D)TLS or DNS-over-HTTPS traffic, this can compromise the endpoint security; some of the potential security threats are listed below:
If the network security service successfully blocks DNS-over-(D)TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS traffic, this can still compromise the endpoint security and privacy; some of the potential security threats are listed below:
In addition, the local network's DNS server is advertised using DHCP/RA which is insecure and also provides no mechanism to securely authenticate the DNS server. To overcome the above threats, this document specifies a mechanism to automatically bootstrap endpoints to discover and authenticate the DNS-over-(D)TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS servers provided by their local network. The overall procedure can be structured into the following steps:
Note: The strict and opportunistic privacy profiles as defined in [RFC8310] only applies to DNS-over-(D)TLS protocols, there has been no such distinction made for DNS-over-HTTPS protocol.
The problems discussed in Section 1 will be encountered in Enterprise networks. Typically Enterprise networks do not assume that all devices in their network are managed by the IT team or Mobile Device Management (MDM) devices, especially in the quite common BYOD ("Bring Your Own Device") scenario. The mechanisms specified in this document can be used by BYOD devices to discover and authenticate DNS-over-(D)TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS servers provided by the Enterprise network. This mechanism can also be used by IoT devices (managed by IT team) after onboarding to discover and authenticate DNS- over-(D)TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS servers provided by the Enterprise network.
WiFi as frequently deployed is vulnerable to various attacks ([Evil-Twin],[Krack] and [Dragonblood]). Because of these attacks, only cryptographically authenticated communications are trusted on WiFi networks. This means information provided by the network via DHCPv4, DHCPv6, or RA (e.g., NTP server, DNS server, default domain) are un-trusted because DHCP and RA are not authenticated.
The users have to indicate to their system in some way that they desire bootstrapping to be performed only when connecting to a specific network (e.g., organization for which a user works or a user works temporarily within another corporation), similar to the way users disable VPN connection in specific network (e.g., Enterprise network) and enable VPN connection by default in other networks. If the discovered DNS server meets the privacy preserving data policy requirements of the user, the user can select to use the discovered DNS-over-(D)TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS servers. In addition, if the discovered DNS-over-(D)TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS servers are reachable on the Internet, user can inform the system to use the servers in other networks. It is strongly recommended to configure the DNS server to be used in other networks provided the DNS server meets the privacy preserving data policy requirements of the user and offers malware filtering service.
If the device joins a public WiFi without any security credential verification or joins a WiFi using a single shared password among all the attached devices, such networks are typically not known to the user or a compromised devices can spoof the access point or the attacker can host a fake access point, and the device cannot be securely bootstrapped with the network's DNS-over-HTTPS or DNS-over-TLS server. A compromised device may, for example, expose to an attacker secrets (such as single shared password) stored in the device. Such networks can also be misconfigured or malicious. Further, the client cannot know if the discovered DNS-over-HTTPS or DNS-over-(D)TLS server is hosted by the network operator or by an attacker. In such networks, DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-(D)TLS server discovered using insecure discovery mechanisms like DHCP can be used by the client if and only if the insecurely discovered DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-(D)TLS server is previously securely discovered in a different network, offers malware filtering service, meets the privacy preserving data policy requirements of the user and configured to be used in other networks.
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 [RFC2119][RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.
(D)TLS is used for statements that apply to both Transport Layer Security [RFC8446] and Datagram Transport Layer Security [RFC6347]. Specific terms are used for any statement that applies to either protocol alone.
This document uses the terms defined in [RFC8499].
The following steps detail the mechanism to automatically bootstrap an endpoint with the local network's DNS server certificate:
Figure 1 illustrates a sequence diagram for bootstrapping an endpoint with the local network's DNS server certificate.
+----------+ +--------+ +--------+ | Endpoint | | EST | | DNS | | | | Server | | Server | +----------+ +--------+ +--------+ | DNS-SD query to discover the EST server | | |-------------------------------------------------------->| | | | | optional: mDNS query to | | | discover the EST server | | |--------------------------------------------->| | | | | | Establish provisional TLS connection | | |<-------------------------------------------->| | | | | | PAKE scheme to authenticate the EST server | | |<-------------------------------------------->| | | | | [Generate reference identifier for the EST server | | to compare with the EST server certificate | | in subsequent TLS connections] | | | | | | Get EE certificates | | |--------------------------------------------->| | | | | [Identify the DNS server certificate in EE | | certificates to match with the certificate | | by the DNS server in (D)TLS handshake] | | | | [Configure ADN and associate DNS server certificate] | | | | |
Figure 1: Bootstrapping Endpoint Devices
The following steps explain the mechanism to automatically bootstrap IoT devices with local network's CA certificates and DNS server certificate:
A DNS client discovers the DNS server in the local network supporting DNS-over-TLS, DNS-over-DTLS and DNS-over-HTTPS protocols by using DNS-based Service Discovery (DNS-SD) [RFC6763]. DNS-SD provides generic solution for discovering services available in a local network. DNS-SD defines a set of naming rules for certain DNS record types that they use for advertising and discovering services. Section 4.1 of [RFC6763] specifies that a service instance name in DNS-SD has the following structure:
<Instance> . <Service> . <Domain>
The <Domain> portion specifies the authentication domain name. The <Service> portion of the DNS service instance name MUST be "_dprive._udp" or "_dprive._tcp" or "_doh._tcp". If no DNS-SD records can be retrieved, the discovery procedure fails for this authentication domain name. However, before retrying a lookup that has failed, a DNS client MUST wait a time period that is appropriate for the encountered error (e.g., NXDOMAIN, timeout, etc.). If no DNS-SD records can be retrieved, the client can try connecting to the pre-configured public DNS servers. If the endpoint has enabled strict privacy profile and access to the pre-configured public DNS servers is blocked, the DNS service won't be available to the endpoint and ultimately the endpoint cannot access Internet-reachable services. If the endpoint has enabled opportunistic privacy profile and access to the pre-configured public DNS servers is blocked, the endpoint will either fallback to an encrypted connection without authenticating the DNS server provided by the local network or fallback to clear text DNS.
If DNS-over-HTTPS protocol is supported by the DNS server, the DNS client can query for the URI resource record type [RFC7553] to use the https URI scheme (Section 3 of [RFC8484]).
The DNS client initiates (D)TLS handshake with the DNS server, the DNS server presents its certificate in ServerHello message, and the DNS client MUST match the DNS server certificate downloaded in Step 4 in Section 4 or Section 5 with the certificate provided by the DNS server in (D)TLS handshake. If the match is successful, the DNS client MUST validate the server certificate using the Implicit Trust Anchor database (i.e., the DNS server certificate must pass PKIX certification path validation).
If the match is successful and server certificate is successfully validated, the client continues with the connection as normal. Otherwise, the client MUST treat the server certificate validation failure as a non-recoverable error. If the DNS client cannot reach or establish an authenticated and encrypted connection with the privacy-enabling DNS server provided by the local network, the DNS client can fallback to the privacy-enabling public DNS server.
A EST client discovers the EST server in the local network by using DNS-based Service Discovery (DNS-SD) [RFC6763] or Multicast DNS (mDNS) [RFC6762]. The <Domain> portion specifies the DNS sub-domain where the service instance is registered. It may be "local.", indicating the mDNS local domain, or it may be a conventional domain name such as "example.com.". The <Service> portion of the EST service instance name MUST be "_est._tcp".
A EST client application can proactively discover an EST server being advertised in the site by multicasting a PTR query to the following:
A EST server can send out gratuitous multicast DNS answer packets whenever it starts up, wakes from sleep, or detects a change in EST server configuration. EST client application can receive these gratuitous packets and cache information contained in them.
On subsequent attachments to the network, the endpoint discovers the privacy-enabling DNS server using the authentication domain name (configured in Step 5 of Section 4 or Section 5), initiates (D)TLS handshake with the DNS server and follows the mechanism discussed in Section 7 to validate the DNS server certificate.
If the DNS server certificate is invalid (e.g., revoked or expired) or the procedure to discover the privacy-enabling DNS server fails (e.g. the domain name of the privacy-enabling DNS server has changed because the Enterprise network has switched to a public privacy-enabling DNS server capable of blocking access to malicious domains), the endpoint discovers and initiates TLS handshake with the EST server, and uses the validation techniques described in [RFC6125] to compare the reference identifier (created in Step 2 of Section 4 in this document) to the EST server certificate and verifies the entire certification path as per [RFC5280]. The endpoint then gets the DNS server certificate from the EST server. If the DNS-ID identifier type within subjectAltName entry in the DNS server certificate does not match the configured ADN, the ADN is replaced with the DNS-ID identifier type. The DNS server certificate associated with the ADN is replaced with the one provided by the EST server. If the ADN has changed, the endpoint discovers the privacy-enabling DNS server, initiates (D)TLS handshake with the DNS server and follows the mechanism discussed in Section 7 to validate the DNS server certificate.
Figure 2 illustrates a sequence diagram for re-configuring an endpoint with ADN and local network's DNS server certificate on subsequent attachments to the network.
+----------+ +--------+ +--------+ | Endpoint | | EST | | DNS | | | | Server | | Server | +----------+ +--------+ +--------+ | DNS-SD query to discover the EST server | | |-------------------------------------------------------->| | | | | optional: mDNS query to | | | discover the EST server | | |--------------------------------------------->| | | | | | Establish TLS connection | | | and validate EST server certificate | | |<-------------------------------------------->| | | | | | Get EE certificates | | |<-------------------------------------------->| | | | | [Identify the DNS server certificate in EE | | certificates to match with the certificate | | by the DNS server in (D)TLS handshake] | | | | [Re-configure ADN and associate DNS server certificate]| | | | |
Figure 2: Bootstrapping Endpoint Devices on subsequent attachments to the network
[RFC7626] discusses DNS privacy considerations in both "on the wire" (Section 2.4 of [RFC7626]) and "in the server" (Section 2.5 of [RFC7626] contexts. The mechanism defined in [I-D.reddy-dprive-dprive-privacy-policy] can be used by the client to discover the privacy policy information of the DNS server.
The bootstrapping procedure to obtain the certificate of the local networks DNS server uses a client identity and password to authenticate the EST server using PAKE schemes. Security considerations such as those discussed in [I-D.barnes-tls-pake] or [RFC8120] and [RFC8121] need to be taken into consideration.
Users cannot be expected to enable or disable the bootstrapping or the discovery procedure as they switch networks. Thus, it is RECOMMENDED that users indicate to their system in some way that they desire bootstrapping to be performed when connecting to a specific network, similar to the way users disable VPN connection in specific network (e.g., Enterprise network) and enable VPN connection by default in other networks.
If an endpoint has enabled strict privacy profile, and the network security service blocks the traffic to the privacy-enabling public DNS server, a hard failure occurs and the user is notified. The user has a choice to switch to another network or if the user trusts the network, the user can enable strict privacy profile with the DNS-over-(D)TLS or DNS-over-HTTPS server discovered in the network instead of downgrading to opportunistic privacy profile.
The primary attacks against the methods described in Section 6 are the ones that would lead to impersonation of a DNS server and spoofing the DNS response to indicate that the DNS server does not support any privacy-enabling protocols. To protect against DNS-vectored attacks, secured DNS (DNSSEC) can be used to ensure the validity of the DNS records received. Impersonation of the DNS server is prevented by validating the certificate presented by the DNS server. If the EST server conveys the DNS server certificate, but the DNS-SD lookup indicates that the DNS server does not support any privacy-enabling protocols, the client can detect the DNS response is spoofed.
Security considerations in [I-D.ietf-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra] need to be taken into consideration for IoT devices.
IANA is requested to allocate the SRV service name of "dprive" for DNS-over-TLS or DNS-over-DTLS, and the service name of "doh" for DNS-over-HTTPS.
IANA is requested to allocate the SRV service name of "est".
Thanks to Joe Hildebrand, Harsha Joshi, Shashank Jain, Patrick McManus, Bob Harold, Livingood Jason, Winfield Alister, Eliot Lear, Stephane Bortzmeyer and Sara Dickinson for the discussion and comments.