GCP Firewall Rule Modificationedit
Identifies when a firewall rule is modified in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) or App Engine. These firewall rules can be modified to allow or deny connections to or from virtual machine (VM) instances or specific applications. An adversary may modify an existing firewall rule in order to weaken their target’s security controls and allow more permissive ingress or egress traffic flows for their benefit.
Rule type: query
Rule indices:
- filebeat-*
- logs-gcp*
Severity: medium
Risk score: 47
Runs every: 5 minutes
Searches indices from: now-6m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time
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Maximum alerts per execution: 100
References:
Tags:
- Elastic
- Cloud
- GCP
- Continuous Monitoring
- SecOps
- Configuration Audit
Version: 7 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.4.0
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Potential false positivesedit
Firewall rules may be modified by system administrators. Verify that the firewall configuration change was expected. Exceptions can be added to this rule to filter expected behavior.
Investigation guideedit
Rule queryedit
event.dataset:gcp.audit and event.action:(*.compute.firewalls.patch or google.appengine.*.Firewall.Update*Rule)
Threat mappingedit
Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM
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Tactic:
- Name: Defense Evasion
- ID: TA0005
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0005/
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Technique:
- Name: Impair Defenses
- ID: T1562
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1562/
Rule version historyedit
- Version 7 (8.4.0 release)
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Updated query, changed from:
event.dataset:(googlecloud.audit or gcp.audit) and event.action:v*.compute.firewalls.patch
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- Version 5 (7.13.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 4 (7.12.0 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 3 (7.11.2 release)
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- Formatting only
- Version 2 (7.11.0 release)
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Updated query, changed from:
event.dataset:googlecloud.audit and event.action:v*.compute.firewalls.patch
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