gcloud-vm-ip-forwarding-enabled: IP Forwarding Not Disabled for VM Instances

id: gcloud-vm-ip-forwarding-enabled

info:
  name: IP Forwarding Not Disabled for VM Instances
  author: princechaddha
  severity: medium
  description: |
    Ensure that IP Forwarding feature is not enabled at the Google Compute Engine instance level for security and compliance reasons, as instances with IP Forwarding enabled act as routers/packet forwarders. Because IP forwarding is rarely required, except when the virtual machine (VM) is used as a network virtual appliance, each Google Cloud VM instance should be reviewed to decide whether IP forwarding is really needed.
  impact: |
    With IP forwarding enabled, VM instances can act as routers and receive traffic addressed to other destinations, potentially creating security risks if not properly configured and monitored.
  remediation: |
    Re-create your VM instances with IP forwarding disabled. Note that you cannot disable IP forwarding on an existing instance - you must create a new instance without the IP forwarding option.
  reference:
    - https://www.trendmicro.com/cloudoneconformity/knowledge-base/gcp/ComputeEngine/disable-ip-forwarding.html
    - https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/using-routes
  tags: cloud,devops,gcp,gcloud,compute,security,networking,ip-forwarding,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)
      set("zone", instance.zone)
      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 compute instances list --project $projectId --format="json(name,zone.basename())"

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

  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      gcloud compute instances describe $instanceName --zone $zone --project $projectId --format="json(canIpForward)"

    matchers:
      - type: word
        words:
          - '"canIpForward": true'

    extractors:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - '"VM instance " + instanceName + " in zone " + zone + " of project " + projectId + " has IP forwarding enabled"'
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