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Check for Unrestricted Redis Access

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Risk Level: High (not acceptable risk)

Ensure that Google Cloud VPC network firewall rules do not allow unrestricted access (i.e. 0.0.0.0/0) on TCP port 6379 in order to reduce the exposure to security risks and protect the Redis cache server instances associated with your firewall rules. Redis is an open source, in-memory data structure store, mostly used as cache server for web applications.

Security

Allowing unrestricted inbound/ingress access on TCP port 6379 (Redis) using Google Cloud VPC network firewall rules can increase opportunities for malicious activities such as cross-site scripting, remote code executions, brute-force and cryptojacking attacks (e.g. RedisWannaMine attacks).

Audit

To determine if your VPC firewall rules allow unrestricted access on TCP port 6379 (Redis), perform the following operations:

Using GCP Console

01 Sign in to Google Cloud Management Console.

02 Select the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project that you want to examine from the console top navigation bar.

03 Navigate to VPC Network console available at https://console.cloud.google.com/networking.

04 In the navigation panel, select Firewall to access the VPC firewall rules defined for the selected GCP project.

05 In the VPC firewall rules section, click inside the Filter box, set Type to Ingress and Disabled to False, to list all the active inbound firewall rules created for your cloud resources.

06 Check the filtered list for any inbound rules with the Protocols / ports attribute set to tcp:6379 or tcp:0-65535, Action set to Allow, and Filters set to IP ranges: 0.0.0.0/0. If one or more rules match the filter criteria, there are VPC network firewall rules that allow unrestricted access on TCP port 6379, therefore, the Redis cache server access granted to the associated cloud resources is not secured.

07 Repeat steps no. 3 – 6 for each GCP project deployed in your Google Cloud account.

Using GCP CLI

01 Run projects list command (Windows/macOS/Linux) using custom query filters to list the IDs of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects currently available in your cloud account: 

gcloud projects list
  --format="table(projectId)"

02 The command output should return the requested GCP project identifiers (IDs): 

PROJECT_ID
cc-project5-stack-1637916379
cc-mobile-project-11263793

03 Run compute networks list command (Windows/macOS/Linux) using the ID of the GCP project that you want to examine as the identifier parameter and custom query filters to describe the name of each VPC network created within the selected project: 

gcloud compute networks list
  --project cc-project5-stack-1637916379
  --format="table(name)"

04 The command output should return the name(s) of the VPC network(s) created for the specified project: 

NAME
cc-app-stack-network
cc-main-stack-network

05 Run compute firewall-rules list command (Windows/macOS/Linux) using the name of the VPC network that you want to examine as the identifier parameter and custom filtering to list all the firewall rules defined for the selected Virtual Private Cloud (VPC): 

gcloud compute firewall-rules list
  --filter network=cc-app-stack-network
  --sort-by priority
  --format=table"(name,disabled,direction,sourceRanges,allowed[].map().firewall_rule().list())"

06 The command output should return the information available for the existing VPC firewall rules: 

NAME: cc-web-allow-http
DISABLED: False
DIRECTION: INGRESS
SOURCE_RANGES: ['0.0.0.0/0']
ALLOW: tcp:80

NAME: cc-web-allow-https
DISABLED: False
DIRECTION: INGRESS
SOURCE_RANGES: ['0.0.0.0/0']
ALLOW: tcp:443

NAME: cc-web-allow-redis
DISABLED: False
DIRECTION: INGRESS
SOURCE_RANGES: ['0.0.0.0/0']
ALLOW: tcp:6379

Check the compute firewall-rules list command output for any enabled firewall rules (i.e. DISABLED: False) with the DIRECTION set to INGRESS, SOURCE_RANGES set to ['0.0.0.0/0'], and ALLOW set to tcp:6379 or tcp:0-65535. If one or more rules match the search criteria, there are VPC network firewall rules that allow unrestricted access on TCP port 6379, therefore, the Redis cache server access granted to the associated cloud resources is not restricted or secured.

07 Repeat steps no. 5 and 6 for each VPC network created for the selected GCP project.

08 Repeat steps no. 3 – 7 for each GCP project deployed in your Google Cloud account.

Remediation / Resolution

To update your VPC network firewall rules configuration in order to restrict Redis-based access to trusted, authorized IP addresses or IP ranges only, perform the following operations:

Using GCP Console

01 Sign in to Google Cloud Management Console.

02 Select the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project that you want to examine from the console top navigation bar.

03 Navigate to VPC Network console available at https://console.cloud.google.com/networking.

04 In the navigation panel, select Firewall to access the VPC firewall rules defined for the selected GCP project.

05 In the VPC firewall rules section, click inside the Filter box, set Type to Ingress and Disabled to False, to list all the active inbound firewall rules created for your cloud resources.

06 Click on the name (link) of the firewall rule that allows unrestricted inbound access on TCP port 6379 and choose EDIT from the console top menu.

07 On the selected firewall rule configuration page, perform the following actions:

  1. Remove the non-compliant 0.0.0.0/0 IP address range from the Source IPv4 ranges configuration box to deny unrestricted (public) inbound access on TCP port 6379 (Redis).
  2. Type the source IP address(es) or IP address range(s) into the Source IPv4 ranges box to define the source for the incoming traffic on TCP port 6379. The allowed IP address blocks must be specified in CIDR format (e.g. 10.10.30.0/24). The IP range(s) can include addresses inside your VPC network and outside your network. Source IP range(s) can be used to define sources both inside and outside Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
  3. Choose SAVE to apply the configuration changes.

08 If required, repeat steps no. 6 and 7 to configure other VPC network firewall rules that allow unrestricted inbound access on TCP port 6379.

09 Repeat steps no. 2 – 8 for each GCP project available within your Google Cloud account.

Using GCP CLI

01 Run compute firewall-rules update command (Windows/macOS/Linux) to update the VPC firewall rule that allows unrestricted ingress access on TCP port 6379 (Redis), by replacing the non-compliant 0.0.0.0/0 IP source range with a trusted, authorized IP address/IP range. The IP range(s) can include addresses available within your VPC network and outside your network. The allowed IP address blocks must be defined in CIDR format. You can specify a single value (e.g. 10.10.30.0/32) or a comma-separated list of multiple values (e.g. 10.10.30.0/32, 10.10.30.0/24): 

gcloud compute firewall-rules update cc-web-allow-redis
  --allow tcp:6379
  --source-ranges=10.10.30.0/24
  --description="Allows Redis server access from an authorized network"

02 The command output should return the ID of the configured VPC firewall rule: 

Updated [https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/cc-project5-stack-1637916379/global/firewalls/cc-web-allow-redis].

03 Repeat steps no. 1 and 2 to configure other VPC network firewall rules that allow unrestricted inbound access on TCP port 6379.

04 Repeat steps no. 1 – 3 for each GCP project deployed in your Google Cloud account.

References

Publication date May 6, 2024

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