Ensure That BigQuery Datasets Are Not Anonymously or Publicly Accessible

Risk Level: High
Cloud Entity: BigQuery
CloudGuard Rule ID: D9.GCP.IAM.28
Covered by Spectral: Yes
Category: Data analytics

GSL LOGIC

BigQuery should not have datasetAccess contain [ specialGroup='allAuthenticatedUsers' or iamMember='allUsers' ]

REMEDIATION

From Portal

1. Go to BigQuery by visiting: https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery.
2. Select the dataset from 'Resources'.
3. Click SHARE DATASET near the right side of the window.
4. Review each attached role.
5. Click the delete icon for each member allUsers or allAuthenticatedUsers. On the popup click Remove.

From Command Line

1. List the name of all datasets.

bq ls

2. Retrieve the data set information:

bq show --format=prettyjson PROJECT_ID:DATASET_NAME > PATH_TO_FILE

3. In the access section of the JSON file, update the dataset information to remove all roles containing allUsers or allAuthenticatedUsers.
4. Update the dataset using below command:

bq update --source PATH_TO_FILE PROJECT_ID:DATASET_NAME

From Terraform

1. Use the resource 'google_bigquery_dataset_access' for providing access to the dataset.
2. Make sure you DON'T have the following values for the respective arguments
   i) special_group = "allAuthenticatedUsers"
   ii) iam_member = "allUsers"

resource "google_bigquery_dataset_access" "bad_template" {
	...
	iam_member = "allUsers"
	...
}

resource "google_bigquery_dataset_access" "bad_template" {
	...
	special_group = "allAuthenticatedUsers"
	...
}

References

1. https://workbench.cisecurity.org/sections/507176/recommendations/827594
2. https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/dataset-access-controls
3. https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/google/latest/docs/resources/bigquery_dataset_access

BigQuery

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Compliance Frameworks

• CloudGuard GCP All Rules Ruleset
• GCP CIS Controls V 8
• GCP CIS Foundations v. 1.1.0
• GCP CIS Foundations v. 1.2.0
• GCP CIS Foundations v. 1.3.0
• GCP CIS Foundations v. 2.0
• GCP CloudGuard Best Practices
• GCP MITRE ATT&CK Framework v12.1
• GCP NIST 800-53 Rev 5