EC2 Permissive Network ACL Protocols

• Query id: 03879981-efa2-47a0-a818-c843e1441b88
• Query name: EC2 Permissive Network ACL Protocols
• Platform: CloudFormation
• Severity: Medium
• Category: Networking and Firewall
• URL: Github

Description

To avoid opening all ports for Allow rules, EC2 NetworkACL Entry Protocol should be either 6 (for TCP), 17 (for UDP), 1 (for ICMP), or 58 (for ICMPv6, which must include an IPv6 CIDR block, ICMP type, and code).
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Postitive test num. 1 - yaml file

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: "2010-09-09"
Description: A sample template
Resources:
  MyNACL:
    Type: AWS::EC2::NetworkAcl
    Properties:
       VpcId: vpc-1122334455aabbccd
       Tags:
       - Key: Name
         Value: NACLforSSHTraffic
  OutboundRule:
    Type: AWS::EC2::NetworkAclEntry
    Properties:
       NetworkAclId:
         Ref: MyNACL
       RuleNumber: 100
       Protocol: -1
       Egress: true
       RuleAction: allow
       CidrBlock: 0.0.0.0/0

Postitive test num. 2 - json file

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
  "Description": "A sample template",
  "Resources": {
    "MyNACL": {
      "Type": "AWS::EC2::NetworkAcl",
      "Properties": {
        "VpcId": "vpc-1122334455aabbccd",
        "Tags": [
          {
            "Key": "Name",
            "Value": "NACLforSSHTraffic"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "OutboundRule": {
      "Properties": {
        "CidrBlock": "0.0.0.0/0",
        "NetworkAclId": {
          "Ref": "MyNACL"
        },
        "RuleNumber": 100,
        "Protocol": -1,
        "Egress": true,
        "RuleAction": "allow"
      },
      "Type": "AWS::EC2::NetworkAclEntry"
    }
  }
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - yaml file

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: "2010-09-09"
Description: A sample template
Resources:
  MyNACL:
    Type: AWS::EC2::NetworkAcl
    Properties:
       VpcId: vpc-1122334455aabbccd
       Tags:
       - Key: Name
         Value: NACLforSSHTraffic
  InboundRule:
    Type: AWS::EC2::NetworkAclEntry
    Properties:
       NetworkAclId:
         Ref: MyNACL
       RuleNumber: 100
       Protocol: 6
       RuleAction: allow
       CidrBlock: 172.16.0.0/24
       PortRange:
         From: 22
         To: 22

Negative test num. 2 - json file

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
  "Description": "A sample template",
  "Resources": {
    "InboundRule": {
      "Type": "AWS::EC2::NetworkAclEntry",
      "Properties": {
        "CidrBlock": "172.16.0.0/24",
        "PortRange": {
          "To": 22,
          "From": 22
        },
        "NetworkAclId": {
          "Ref": "MyNACL"
        },
        "RuleNumber": 100,
        "Protocol": 6,
        "RuleAction": "allow"
      }
    },
    "MyNACL": {
      "Properties": {
        "VpcId": "vpc-1122334455aabbccd",
        "Tags": [
          {
            "Key": "Name",
            "Value": "NACLforSSHTraffic"
          }
        ]
      },
      "Type": "AWS::EC2::NetworkAcl"
    }
  }
}