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Ensure no Network Access Control Lists (ACL) allow ingress from 0.0.0.0/0 to remote server administration ports (Automated)
Profile Applicability
• Level 1
Description
The Network Access Control List (NACL) function provide stateless filtering of ingress and egress network traffic to AWS resources. Best practices recommend that no NACL allows unrestricted ingress access to remote server administration ports, such as SSH to port 22
and Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to port 3389
, using either the Tag Distribution Protocol (TDP) (6), User Datagram Protocol (UDP) (17) or ALL (-1) protocols.
Rationale
Public access to remote server administration ports, such as 22 and 3389, increases resource attack surface and unnecessarily raises the risk of resource compromise.
Audit
From Console
Perform the following to determine if the account is configured as prescribed:
- Login to the AWS Management Console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/vpc/home
- In the left pane, click
Network ACLs
- For each network ACL, perform the following:
- Select the network ACL
- Click the
Inbound Rules
tab - Ensure no rule exists that has a port range that includes port
22
,3389
, using the protocols TDP (6), UDP (17) or ALL (-1) or other remote server administration ports for your environment and has aSource
of0.0.0.0/0
and showsALLOW
A Port value of ALL
or a port range such as 0-1024
are inclusive of port 22
, 3389
, and other remote server administration ports
Remediation
From Console
Perform the following:
- Login to the AWS Management Console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/vpc/home/.
- In the left pane, click
Network ACLs
. - For each network ACL to remediate, perform the following:
- Select the network ACL
- Click the
Inbound Rules
tab - Click
Edit inbound rules
- Either A) update the Source field to a range other than 0.0.0.0/0, or, B) Click
Delete
to remove the offending inbound rule - Click
Save
References
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/vpc-network-acls.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Security.html#VPC_Security_Comparison