Persistent Disks Attached to Suspended Virtual Machines

ID: gcloud-persistent-disks-suspended-vms

Severity: high

Author: princechaddha

Tags: cloud,devops,gcp,gcloud,compute,storage,cost-optimization,gcp-cloud-config

Description

Ensure that persistent disks are not attached to suspended virtual machine (VM) instances in your Google Cloud environment. Persistent disks attached to suspended VMs continue to incur charges even when the VM is not running, leading to unnecessary costs.

YAML Source

id: gcloud-persistent-disks-suspended-vms

info:
  name: Persistent Disks Attached to Suspended Virtual Machines
  author: princechaddha
  severity: high
  description: |
    Ensure that persistent disks are not attached to suspended virtual machine (VM) instances in your Google Cloud environment. Persistent disks attached to suspended VMs continue to incur charges even when the VM is not running, leading to unnecessary costs.
  impact: |
    Keeping persistent disks attached to suspended VMs results in ongoing storage charges without active utilization, increasing cloud infrastructure costs unnecessarily.
  remediation: |
    Identify and detach persistent disks from suspended VMs, or delete the disks if they are no longer needed to optimize cloud resource costs.
  reference:
    - https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks
  tags: cloud,devops,gcp,gcloud,compute,storage,cost-optimization,gcp-cloud-config

flow: |
  code(1)
  for(let projectId of iterate(template.projectIds)){
    set("projectId", projectId)
    code(2)
    for(let disk of iterate(template.disks)){
      disk = JSON.parse(disk)
      set("diskName", disk.name)
      set("zone", disk.zone)
      code(3)
      for(let instanceUrl of iterate(template.instanceUrls)){
        set("instanceUrl", instanceUrl)
        code(4)
      }
    }
  }

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 compute disks list --project $projectId --format="json(name,zone.basename())"

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

  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      gcloud compute disks describe $diskName --zone $zone --project $projectId --format="json(users[])" | jq -r '.[] // "null"'

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

  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      gcloud compute instances describe $instanceUrl --zone $zone --project $projectId --format="json(status)"

    matchers:
      - type: word
        words:
          - "SUSPENDED"
          - "SUSPENDING"
        condition: or

    extractors:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - '"Persistent disk " + diskName + " is attached to suspended VM instance in zone " + zone + " of project " + projectId'
# digest: 4a0a004730450221008bfa43d9704681d117af15a9074e4b129945d39e9bc4097d5b36aff8c306391a022002bf2c21d7a6539cb2fc5ee06736e2254f5f773d2888a6780a08e05925edd06a: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/gcp/compute/gcloud-persistent-disks-suspended-vms.yaml"

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