GCP Firewall Rule Modification
editGCP Firewall Rule Modification
editIdentifies when a firewall rule is modified in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) firewall rules can be configured to allow or deny connections to or from virtual machine (VM) instances. An adversary may modify a firewall rule in order to weaken their target’s security controls.
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)
Maximum alerts per execution: 100
References:
Tags:
- Elastic
- Cloud
- GCP
- Continuous Monitoring
- SecOps
- Configuration Audit
Version: 5 (version history)
Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.10.0
Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 7.13.0
Rule authors: Elastic
Rule license: Elastic License v2
Potential false positives
editFirewall 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 guide
editConfig
The GCP Fleet integration, Filebeat module, or similarly structured data is required to be compatible with this rule.
Rule query
editevent.dataset:(googlecloud.audit or gcp.audit) and event.action:v*.compute.firewalls.patch
Threat mapping
editFramework: 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 history
edit- 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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