📝 Azure Network Security Group allows unrestricted RDP access from the Internet 🟢
- Contextual name: 📝 Security Group allows unrestricted RDP access from the Internet 🟢
- ID:
/ce/ca/azure/virtual-network/security-group-rule-disable-rdp-access-from-internet - Located in: 📁 Azure Virtual Network
Flags
Our Metadata
- Policy Type:
COMPLIANCE_POLICY - Policy Category:
SECURITY
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Logic
- 🧠 prod.logic.yaml 🟢
Description
Description
Network security groups should be periodically evaluated for port misconfigurations. Where certain ports and protocols may be exposed to the Internet, they should be evaluated for necessity and restricted wherever they are not explicitly required.
Rationale
The potential security problem with using RDP over the Internet is that attackers can use various brute force techniques to gain access to Azure Virtual Machines. Once the attackers gain access, they can use a virtual machine as a launch point for compromising other machines on an Azure Virtual Network or even attack networked devices outside of Azure.
Audit
From Azure Portal
- For each VM, open the
Networkingblade.- Verify that the
INBOUND PORT RULESdoes not have a rule for RDP such as:
- port =
3389.- protocol =
TCPORANY.- Source =
AnyORInternet.From Azure CLI
List Network security groups with corresponding non-default Security rules:
az network nsg list --query [*].[name,securityRules]Ensure that none of the NSGs have security rule as below:
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Remediation
Remediation
Where RDP is not explicitly required and narrowly configured for resources attached to the Network Security Group, Internet-level access to your Azure resources should be restricted or eliminated.
For internal access to relevant resources, configure an encrypted network tunnel such as: