gcloud-dns-dnssec-unenabled: DNSSEC Not Enabled for Google Cloud DNS Zones

2025-08-01 Google Cloud DNS PoC Public

Description

Ensure that DNSSEC security feature is enabled for all your Google Cloud DNS managed zones in order to protect your domains against spoofing and cache poisoning attacks. By default, DNSSEC is not enabled for Google Cloud public DNS managed zones.

PoC

id: gcloud-dns-dnssec-unenabled

info:
  name: DNSSEC Not Enabled for Google Cloud DNS Zones
  author: princechaddha
  severity: medium
  description: |
    Ensure that DNSSEC security feature is enabled for all your Google Cloud DNS managed zones in order to protect your domains against spoofing and cache poisoning attacks. By default, DNSSEC is not enabled for Google Cloud public DNS managed zones.
  impact: |
    Not enabling DNSSEC for DNS zones can increase the risk of DNS spoofing and cache poisoning, compromising the security of domain resolutions.
  remediation: |
    Enable DNSSEC for each Google Cloud DNS managed zone through the Google Cloud Console or using the `gcloud dns managed-zones update` command with the `--dnssec-state=on` flag.
  reference:
    - https://cloud.google.com/dns/docs/dnssec
  tags: cloud,devops,gcp,gcloud,dns,gcp-cloud-config,discovery

flow: |
  code(1)
  for(let projectId of iterate(template.projectIds)){
    set("projectId", projectId)
    code(2)
    for(let managedZone of iterate(template.managedZones)){
      set("managedZoneName", managedZone)
      code(3)
    }
  }

self-contained: true

code:
  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      gcloud projects list --format="json(projectId)"

    extractors:
      - type: json
        name: projectIds
        internal: true
        json:
          - '.[].projectId'

  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      gcloud dns managed-zones list --project $projectId --format="json(name,visibility)"

    extractors:
      - type: json
        name: managedZones
        internal: true
        json:
          - '.[].name'

  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      gcloud dns managed-zones describe $managedZoneName --project $projectId --format="json(dnssecConfig.state)"

    matchers:
      - type: word
        words:
          - 'off'

    extractors:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - '"DNSSEC not enabled for Managed Zone: " + managedZoneName + " in Project: " + projectId'
# digest: 4a0a004730450220216452864fd498a37ca7126a7ac05c8ed4ef12e0ac61c64859e224448acedd6e022100a55e457f728bd9ecc9c5827ef7ae05c82e881f7b30df22fb18edd2b3c231a9d6:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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