Organization Policy for Allowed External IPs Not Configured

ID: gcloud-org-allowed-external-ips

Severity: medium

Author: princechaddha

Tags: cloud,devops,gcp,gcloud,resourcemanager,security,networking,organization,gcp-cloud-config

Description

Ensure that “Define Allowed External IPs for VM Instances” constraint policy is enforced at the GCP organization level in order to enable you to define the set of virtual machine (VM) instances that are allowed to use external IP addresses. This constraint helps you to minimize your instance’s exposure to the Internet.

YAML Source

id: gcloud-org-allowed-external-ips

info:
  name: Organization Policy for Allowed External IPs Not Configured
  author: princechaddha
  severity: medium
  description: |
    Ensure that "Define Allowed External IPs for VM Instances" constraint policy is enforced at the GCP organization level in order to enable you to define the set of virtual machine (VM) instances that are allowed to use external IP addresses. This constraint helps you to minimize your instance's exposure to the Internet.
  impact: |
    By default, all Google Cloud virtual machine instances are allowed to use external IP addresses. Without proper constraints, this increases the attack surface as instances may be unnecessarily exposed to the internet.
  remediation: |
    Configure the "Define Allowed External IPs for VM Instances" policy at the organization level to explicitly specify which VM instances are allowed to have external IP addresses. Use the format: projects/<project-id>/zones/<instance-zone>/instances/<instance-name>.
  reference:
    - https://www.trendmicro.com/cloudoneconformity/knowledge-base/gcp/ResourceManager/allowed-external-ips.html
    - https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/organization-policy/org-policy-constraints
  tags: cloud,devops,gcp,gcloud,resourcemanager,security,networking,organization,gcp-cloud-config

flow: |
  code(1)
  for(let orgId of iterate(template.orgIds)){
    set("orgId", orgId)
    code(2)
  }

self-contained: true

code:
  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      gcloud organizations list --format="json(name)"

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

  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      gcloud alpha resource-manager org-policies describe compute.vmExternalIpAccess --organization=$orgId --effective --format="json(listPolicy.allValues)"

    matchers:
      - type: word
        words:
          - "ALLOW"

    extractors:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - '"Organization " + orgId + " allows all VM instances to use external IP addresses, increasing exposure to the internet"'
# digest: 4a0a00473045022100c25c8cdc695c3a701577a6ebcec287d3426299e54a949dbc3a7e431d463149c90220111bb9000045b42865cb4dc90ed928b750e5c8fa1e9d1daf3e3639f79e7092ef: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/resourcemanager/gcloud-org-allowed-external-ips.yaml"

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