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DNS Rebinding Attack Detection

dns-rebinding-attack is a critical severity check in the network category, written in go. Its source is templates/network/dns/dns-rebinding-attack.go in cert-x-gen-templates.

Detects servers vulnerable to DNS rebinding attacks via Host header validation and DNS resolution monitoring

Field Value
Id dns-rebinding-attack
Severity critical
Language go
Category network
Author CERT-X-GEN Security Team
Template version 1.0.0
Confidence 85
CVSS 8.8
Weakness CWE-350, CWE-367, CWE-918
Tags dns-rebinding, toctou, ssrf, host-header, dns
Target kind not recorded
Oracle not recorded

Declared in the header. cxg parses @references and then discards it, and nothing at scan time reads it, so this is the only place the links a template cites are surfaced.

To see what the copy on your machine says about itself, and to confirm it is installed at all:

Terminal window
cxg template info dns-rebinding-attack

The id it prints is the one to pass anywhere a template is selected. See cxg template for the rest of the subcommand, Scan a target for running a scan, and A match is not a finding for how to read what comes back.