Unapproved External Load Balancers in Google Cloud Projects

ID: gcloud-approved-external-lb

Severity: medium

Author: princechaddha

Tags: cloud,devops,gcp,gcloud,google-cloud-load-balancing,gcp-cloud-config

Description

Ensure that your web applications are using only approved external load balancers to comply with your organization’s security and industry requirements. Using unapproved load balancers could expose your applications to vulnerabilities. The approved load balancers must be defined in the conformity rule settings, in the Trend Cloud One™ – Conformity account console.

YAML Source

id: gcloud-approved-external-lb

info:
  name: Unapproved External Load Balancers in Google Cloud Projects
  author: princechaddha
  severity: medium
  description: |
    Ensure that your web applications are using only approved external load balancers to comply with your organization's security and industry requirements. Using unapproved load balancers could expose your applications to vulnerabilities. The approved load balancers must be defined in the conformity rule settings, in the Trend Cloud One™ – Conformity account console.
  impact: |
    Using unapproved load balancers can expose web applications to potential security vulnerabilities.
  remediation: |
    Ensure all used external load balancers are approved in the Trend Cloud One™ – Conformity account console. Replace unapproved load balancers with approved ones.
  reference:
    - https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs
  tags: cloud,devops,gcp,gcloud,google-cloud-load-balancing,gcp-cloud-config

flow: |
  code(1)
  for(let projectId of iterate(template.projectIds)){
    set("projectId", projectId)
    code(2)
    for(let urlMap of iterate(template.urlMaps)){
      set("urlMap", urlMap)
      code(3)
      for(let targetHttpProxy of iterate(template.targetHttpProxies)){
        set("targetHttpProxy", targetHttpProxy)
        code(4)
        for(let forwardingRule of iterate(template.forwardingRules)){
          code(5)
        }
      }
    }
  }

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 url-maps list --project $projectId --format="json(name)"

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

  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      gcloud compute target-http-proxies list --project $projectId --format="json(name,urlMap)"

    extractors:
      - type: json
        name: targetHttpProxies
        internal: true
        json:
          - '.[] | {name: .name, urlMap: .urlMap}'

  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      gcloud compute forwarding-rules list --project $projectId --format="json(name,loadBalancingScheme,target)"

    matchers:
      - type: word
        words:
          - 'EXTERNAL_MANAGED'

    extractors:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - '"Unapproved External Load Balancer in project: " + projectId + ", Load Balancer: " + name'
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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/loadbalancing/gcloud-approved-external-lb.yaml"

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