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RDP access is not restricted

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Id: ansible-gcp-rdp-access-is-not-restricted

Provider: GCP

Platform: Ansible

Severity: High

Category: Networking and Firewall

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Description

Allowing unrestricted RDP (TCP port 3389) ingress exposes hosts to automated brute-force attacks and unauthorized remote access. This rule inspects Ansible google.cloud.gcp_compute_firewall and gcp_compute_firewall tasks and flags ingress rules whose source_ranges include unrestricted CIDRs (for example 0.0.0.0/0 or ::/0) and whose allowed entries include port 3389 (typically ip_protocol: tcp).

The allowed property must not include port 3389 for rules that permit unrestricted source ranges. Either remove or disable RDP on the firewall, or restrict source_ranges to trusted CIDRs. Consider using a bastion host, VPN, or identity-based access (IAP/SSM) instead of direct RDP. Resources where direction is ingress, source_ranges contains an unrestricted CIDR, and allowed[].ports contains "3389" are flagged.

Secure example that restricts RDP to a corporate CIDR:

- name: allow-rdp-from-corporate
  google.cloud.gcp_compute_firewall:
    name: allow-rdp-corp
    network: default
    direction: INGRESS
    source_ranges:
      - 10.0.0.0/8
    allowed:
      - ip_protocol: tcp
        ports:
          - "3389"

Compliant Code Examples

- name: create a firewall
  google.cloud.gcp_compute_firewall:
    name: test_object
    allowed:
    - ip_protocol: tcp
      ports:
      - '80'
    target_tags:
    - test-ssh-server
    - staging-ssh-server
    source_tags:
    - test-ssh-clients
    project: test_project
    auth_kind: serviceaccount
    service_account_file: /tmp/auth.pem
    state: present

Non-Compliant Code Examples

- name: rdp_in_range
  google.cloud.gcp_compute_firewall:
    name: test_object
    source_ranges:
      - "0.0.0.0/0"
    allowed:
      - ip_protocol: tcp
        ports:
          - "22"
          - "80"
          - "8080"
          - "2000-4000"
    target_tags:
      - test-ssh-server
      - staging-ssh-server
    source_tags:
      - test-ssh-clients
    project: test_project
    auth_kind: serviceaccount
    service_account_file: "/tmp/auth.pem"
    state: present
- name: rdp_in_port
  google.cloud.gcp_compute_firewall:
    name: test_object
    source_ranges:
      - "0.0.0.0/0"
    allowed:
      - ip_protocol: tcp
        ports:
          - "22"
          - "80"
          - "3389"
    target_tags:
      - test-ssh-server
      - staging-ssh-server
    source_tags:
      - test-ssh-clients
    project: test_project
    auth_kind: serviceaccount
    service_account_file: "/tmp/auth.pem"
    state: present