gcloud-filestore-unrestricted-access: Filestore Instance Client Access Not Restricted by IP

2025-08-01 gcloud-filestore-unrestricted-access PoC Public

Description

Ensure that client access to your Google Cloud Filestore instances is limited to specific (trusted) IP addresses or IP address ranges in order to protect your data against unauthorized access. By default, Filestore instances provide full (root-level read/write) access to all clients within the same Google Cloud project and VPC network.

PoC

id: gcloud-filestore-unrestricted-access

info:
  name: Filestore Instance Client Access Not Restricted by IP
  author: princechaddha
  severity: medium
  description: |
    Ensure that client access to your Google Cloud Filestore instances is limited to specific (trusted) IP addresses or IP address ranges in order to protect your data against unauthorized access. By default, Filestore instances provide full (root-level read/write) access to all clients within the same Google Cloud project and VPC network.
  impact: |
    Granting untrusted clients access exposes Filestore instance data to unapproved access, modification, or deletion. Without IP-based access rules, any client in the same project and VPC can access the instance.
  remediation: |
    Configure IP-based access rules for your Filestore instances to restrict access to specific IP addresses or ranges. Once configured, any IP address or range not explicitly allowed will be denied access.
  reference:
    - https://www.trendmicro.com/cloudoneconformity/knowledge-base/gcp/Filestore/restrict-client-access.html
    - https://cloud.google.com/filestore/docs/access-control
  tags: cloud,devops,gcp,gcloud,filestore,security,networking,access-control,gcp-cloud-config

flow: |
  code(1)
  for(let projectId of iterate(template.projectIds)){
    set("projectId", projectId)
    code(2)
    for(let instance of iterate(template.instances)){
      instance = JSON.parse(instance)
      set("instanceName", instance.name)
      code(3)
    }
  }

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 filestore instances list --project $projectId --format="json"

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

  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      gcloud filestore instances describe $instanceName --format="json(fileShares[].nfsExportOptions)"

    matchers:
      - type: word
        words:
          - "null"

    extractors:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - '"Filestore instance " + instanceName + " in project " + projectId + " has unrestricted client access and is not limited to specific IP addresses"'
# digest: 4a0a00473045022015227977ae287e23e7ff3a7fe02ab1e22cb3f9452e7270651f2dba02685071890221009812ea9204d9da21ef99f129a3426fa9b6f8cb6dd1a5a1743f2b64f1fcb4d7fb:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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