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Unrestricted security group ingress

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Metadata

Id: ansible-aws-unrestricted-security-group-ingress

Provider: AWS

Platform: Ansible

Severity: High

Category: Networking and Firewall

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Description

Security group ingress rules must not allow traffic from the entire Internet (IPv4 0.0.0.0/0 or IPv6 ::/0) to specific ports. This exposes services to unauthorized access and automated attacks such as brute force and port scanning.

This rule inspects Ansible amazon.aws.ec2_group and ec2_group tasks and flags rules entries that define ports (via from_port/to_port or ports) where cidr_ip is 0.0.0.0/0 or cidr_ipv6 is ::/0. It also detects these values when CIDRs are provided as lists.

To remediate, restrict ingress to specific trusted CIDR ranges, use security group-to-security group references or VPN/bastion hosts, and remove or replace 0.0.0.0/0 and ::/0 from rules that open ports.

Secure configuration example (restrict SSH to a trusted IPv4 range and allow HTTPS from a specific IPv6 range):

- name: Create restricted SG
  amazon.aws.ec2_group:
    name: my-sg
    description: "Restrict SSH and HTTPS to trusted networks"
    rules:
      - proto: tcp
        from_port: 22
        to_port: 22
        cidr_ip: 10.0.0.0/24
      - proto: tcp
        from_port: 443
        to_port: 443
        cidr_ipv6: "2001:db8::/32"

Compliant Code Examples

- name: example1
  amazon.aws.ec2_group:
    name: example1
    description: an example EC2 group
    vpc_id: 12345
    region: eu-west-1
    rules:
    - proto: tcp
      ports:
      - 80
      - 443
      - 8080-8099
      cidr_ip: 172.16.17.0/24
- name: example2
  amazon.aws.ec2_group:
    name: example2
    description: an example EC2 group
    vpc_id: 12345
    region: eu-west-1
    rules:
    - proto: tcp
      ports:
      - 80
      - 443
      - 8080-8099
      cidr_ip:
      - 172.16.1.0/24
- name: example3
  amazon.aws.ec2_group:
    name: example3
    description: an example EC2 group
    vpc_id: 12345
    region: eu-west-1
    rules:
    - proto: tcp
      ports:
      - 80
      - 443
      - 8080-8099
      cidr_ipv6: 2607:F8B0::/32
- name: example4
  amazon.aws.ec2_group:
    name: example4
    description: an example EC2 group
    vpc_id: 12345
    region: eu-west-1
    rules:
    - proto: tcp
      ports:
      - 80
      - 443
      - 8080-8099
      cidr_ipv6:
      - 64:ff9b::/96
      - 2607:F8B0::/32

Non-Compliant Code Examples

---
- name: example1
  amazon.aws.ec2_group:
    name: example1
    description: an example EC2 group
    vpc_id: 12345
    region: eu-west-1
    rules:
      - proto: tcp
        ports:
          - 80
          - 443
          - 8080-8099
        cidr_ip: 0.0.0.0/0
- name: example2
  amazon.aws.ec2_group:
    name: example2
    description: an example EC2 group
    vpc_id: 12345
    region: eu-west-1
    rules:
      - proto: tcp
        ports:
          - 80
          - 443
          - 8080-8099
        cidr_ip:
          - 0.0.0.0/0
- name: example3
  amazon.aws.ec2_group:
    name: example3
    description: an example EC2 group
    vpc_id: 12345
    region: eu-west-1
    rules:
      - proto: tcp
        ports:
          - 80
          - 443
          - 8080-8099
        cidr_ipv6: ::/0
- name: example4
  amazon.aws.ec2_group:
    name: example4
    description: an example EC2 group
    vpc_id: 12345
    region: eu-west-1
    rules:
      - proto: tcp
        ports:
          - 80
          - 443
          - 8080-8099
        cidr_ipv6:
          - ::/0