Azure VM Guest-Level Diagnostics Not Enabled

ID: azure-vm-guest-diagnostics-unenabled

Severity: medium

Author: princechaddha

Tags: cloud,devops,azure,microsoft,virtual-machines,azure-cloud-config

Description

Ensure that Guest-Level Diagnostics feature is enabled for your Azure virtual machines (VMs) in order to gather diagnostic data useful to create notification alerts and get vital information about the state of your VM applications using advanced metrics.

YAML Source

id: azure-vm-guest-diagnostics-unenabled
info:
  name: Azure VM Guest-Level Diagnostics Not Enabled
  author: princechaddha
  severity: medium
  description: |
    Ensure that Guest-Level Diagnostics feature is enabled for your Azure virtual machines (VMs) in order to gather diagnostic data useful to create notification alerts and get vital information about the state of your VM applications using advanced metrics.
  impact: |
    Not having Guest-Level Diagnostics enabled may lead to insufficient data collection for troubleshooting and lack of visibility into application performance and operational health.
  remediation: |
    Enable Guest-Level Diagnostics on your Azure virtual machines to ensure comprehensive data collection and enhance monitoring capabilities.
  reference:
    - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/diagnostics
  tags: cloud,devops,azure,microsoft,virtual-machines,azure-cloud-config

flow: |
  code(1);
  for (let VMData of iterate(template.vmList)) {
    VMData = JSON.parse(VMData);
    set("ids", VMData.id);
    code(2);
  }

self-contained: true
code:
  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      az vm list --query '[*].{"id":id}'

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

  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      az vm show --ids "$ids" --query '{"GuestLevelDiagnosticsConfig": resources[*].settings.ladCfg.diagnosticMonitorConfiguration}'

    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        words:
          - '"GuestLevelDiagnosticsConfig": null'

    extractors:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - 'ids + " does not have Guest-Level Diagnostics enabled"'
# digest: 4b0a00483046022100ca69e08c39a946404a3a75bcde2d557da1c5fc985b6b0c2674e53ba5a31236e1022100d4022772779470dccad5c30a8179007b05d446114887b8d9388859d5164f4976:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

Guide to check the vulnerabilities

This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.

$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "cloud/azure/virtualmachines/azure-vm-guest-diagnostics-unenabled.yaml"

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