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Critical Service APIs Not Enabled

ID: gcloud-critical-service-apis-disabled

Severity: critical

Author: princechaddha

Tags: cloud,devops,gcp,gcloud,api-management,gcp-cloud-config

Ensure that critical service APIs are enabled for your GCP projects to gain access to essential functionalities and services provided by Google Cloud Platform (GCP), manage your project resources efficiently, enhance the security of your cloud environment, and track your usage and billing. The critical service APIs include, but are not limited to, Identity and Access Management (IAM) API, Compute Engine API, Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Pub/Sub API, Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) API, and Cloud Logging API.

id: gcloud-critical-service-apis-disabled
info:
name: Critical Service APIs Not Enabled
author: princechaddha
severity: critical
description: |
Ensure that critical service APIs are enabled for your GCP projects to gain access to essential functionalities and services provided by Google Cloud Platform (GCP), manage your project resources efficiently, enhance the security of your cloud environment, and track your usage and billing. The critical service APIs include, but are not limited to, Identity and Access Management (IAM) API, Compute Engine API, Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Pub/Sub API, Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) API, and Cloud Logging API.
impact: |
Disabling critical service APIs can prevent the proper management and security of GCP resources, potentially leading to service disruptions or compromised security.
remediation: |
Enable the necessary service APIs via the GCP Console or the gcloud command-line tool for each project where they are found to be disabled.
reference:
- https://cloud.google.com/service-usage/docs/enable-disable
tags: cloud,devops,gcp,gcloud,api-management,gcp-cloud-config
flow: |
code(1)
for(let projectId of iterate(template.projectIds)){
set("projectId", projectId)
code(2)
}
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 services list --project $projectId --enabled --filter=name:iam.googleapis.com --format="json" | jq '.'
matchers:
- type: word
words:
- '[]'
extractors:
- type: dsl
dsl:
- '"Critical API not enabled: IAM API in Project: " + projectId'
# digest: 4a0a004730450221008a33e85deb35cb7e682c6875bd120be993c3a552deaa4cd2831b5531d9efe550022013a2421e83defe9ea15eb71ffe62daaabb0dca6395e27b06449c3c81f7a43abe:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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.

Terminal window
$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "cloud/gcp/api/gcloud-critical-service-apis-disabled.yaml"

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