Ensure no security groups allow ingress from 0.0.0.0/0 to SSH (TCP:22)

Security groups provide stateful filtering of ingress/egress network traffic to AWS resources. It is recommended that no security group allows unrestricted ingress access to port 22.

Risk Level: Critical
Cloud Entity: AWS Security Group
CloudGuard Rule ID: D9.AWS.NET.01
Covered by Spectral: Yes
Category: Networking & Content Delivery

GSL LOGIC

SecurityGroup should not have inboundRules with [scope = '0.0.0.0/0' and port<=22 and portTo>=22]

REMEDIATION

Removing unfettered connectivity to remote console services, such as SSH, reduces a server's exposure to risk.
From Portal

Login to the AWS Management Console and open Amazon VPC console https://console.aws.amazon.com/vpc/home
In the navigation pane, choose Security Groups.
For each security group, perform the following:
Select the security group
Click the Inbound Rules tab
Identify the rules to be removed
Edit the inbound rule, change the source cidr range or Delete the rule.
Click Save

From TF
Add CIDR range to restrict ingress access to port 22.

resource "aws_security_group" "test" {
    name        = "allow_tls4"
    description = "Allow TLS inbound traffic"
    
    ingress {
        description = "TLS from VPC"
        from_port   = 22
        to_port     = 22
        protocol    = "tcp"
        -   cidr_blocks = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
        +   cidr_blocks = ["10.92.168.0/28"]
    }
}

From Command Line
To make sure security groups don't allow ingress from 0.0.0.0/0 to SSH (TCP:22), run:

aws ec2 revoke-security-group-ingress --region REGION --group-name GROUP-NAME --protocol PROTOCOL --port 22 --cidr 0.0.0.0/0

References

AWS Security Group

A security group acts as a virtual firewall for your instance to control inbound and outbound traffic. When you launch an instance in a VPC, you can assign up to five security groups to the instance. Security groups act at the instance level, not the subnet level. Therefore, each instance in a subnet in your VPC could be assigned to a different set of security groups. If you don't specify a particular group at launch time, the instance is automatically assigned to the default security group for the VPC.

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Updated 6 days ago