Network Interfaces IP Forwarding Enabled

• Query id: 4216ebac-d74c-4423-b437-35025cb88af5
• Query name: Network Interfaces IP Forwarding Enabled
• Platform: Terraform
• Severity: Medium
• Category: Networking and Firewall
• URL: Github

Description

Network Interfaces IP Forwarding should be disabled
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "azurerm_network_interface" "positive" {
  name                = "example-nic"
  location            = azurerm_resource_group.example.location
  resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.example.name

  ip_configuration {
    name                          = "internal"
    subnet_id                     = azurerm_subnet.example.id
    private_ip_address_allocation = "Dynamic"
  }

  enable_ip_forwarding = true
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "azurerm_network_interface" "negative1" {
  name                = "example-nic"
  location            = azurerm_resource_group.example.location
  resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.example.name

  ip_configuration {
    name                          = "internal"
    subnet_id                     = azurerm_subnet.example.id
    private_ip_address_allocation = "Dynamic"
  }

  enable_ip_forwarding = false
}

Negative test num. 2 - tf file

resource "azurerm_network_interface" "negative2" {
  name                = "example-nic"
  location            = azurerm_resource_group.example.location
  resource_group_name = azurerm_resource_group.example.name

  ip_configuration {
    name                          = "internal"
    subnet_id                     = azurerm_subnet.example.id
    private_ip_address_allocation = "Dynamic"
  }
}