Linux: IP Forwarding
🗓️ 24 Jan 2019 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2019 Greenbone AGType
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| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| linuxconfig | www.linuxconfig.org/how-to-turn-on-off-ip-forwarding-in-linux |
| linux | www.linux.die.net/man/5/sysctl.conf |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.109755");
script_version("2023-07-27T05:05:09+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-27 05:05:09 +0000 (Thu, 27 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2019-01-24 08:47:05 +0100 (Thu, 24 Jan 2019)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"0.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:N");
script_tag(name:"qod", value:"97");
script_name("Linux: IP Forwarding");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2019 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Policy");
script_dependencies("compliance_tests.nasl", "read_etc_sysctl_d.nasl", "read_and_parse_sysctl.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("Compliance/Launch");
script_add_preference(name:"Status", type:"radio", value:"Disabled;Enabled", id:1);
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://linux.die.net/man/5/sysctl.conf");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-turn-on-off-ip-forwarding-in-linux");
script_xref(name:"Policy", value:"CIS Distribution Independent Linux v2.0.0: 3.1.1 Ensure IP forwarding is disabled (Scored)");
script_xref(name:"Policy", value:"CIS CentOS Linux 8 Benchmark v1.0.0: 3.1.1 Ensure IP forwarding is disabled (Scored)");
script_xref(name:"Policy", value:"CIS Controls Version 7: 5.1 Establish Secure Configurations");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The net.ipv4.ip_forward and net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding flags are used to tell the
system whether it can forward packets or not.");
exit(0);
}
include("policy_functions.inc");
cmd = "grep 'net.ipv4.ip_forward' /etc/sysctl.conf /etc/sysctl.d/*";
title = "IP Forwarding";
solution = "Add or remove 'net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0' to /etc/sysctl.conf or a /etc/sysctl.d/* file";
test_type = "SSH_Cmd";
default = script_get_preference("Status", id:1);
if(get_kb_item("Policy/linux/sysctl/conf/ERROR") ||
get_kb_item("Policy/linux/sysctl/ssh/ERROR") ) {
value = "Error";
compliant = "incomplete";
comment = "No SSH connection to host";
}else if(get_kb_item("Policy/linux//etc/sysctl.conf/content/ERROR") ||
get_kb_item("Policy/linux/sysctl/ERROR") ) {
value = "Error";
compliant = "incomplete";
comment = "Can not read /etc/sysctl.conf or run sysctl";
}else{
sysctl_d_files = get_kb_list("Policy/linux//etc/sysctl.d/*/content");
content_list = make_list(sysctl_d_files, get_kb_item("Policy/linux//etc/sysctl.conf/content"));
foreach content (content_list){
if(content =~ "net\.ipv4\.ip_forward\s*=\s*1" ||
content =~ "net\.ipv6\.conf\.all\.forwarding\s*=\s*1") {
value = "Enabled";
}
}
if(get_kb_item("Policy/linux/sysctl/net.ipv4.ip_forward") != "0")
value = "Enabled";
if(get_kb_item("Policy/linux/sysctl/net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding") != "0")
value = "Enabled";
if(!value)
value = "Disabled";
compliant = policy_setting_exact_match(value:value, set_point:default);
}
policy_reporting(result:value, default:default, compliant:compliant, fixtext:solution,
type:test_type, test:cmd, info:comment);
policy_set_kbs(type:test_type, cmd:cmd, default:default, solution:solution, title:title,
value:value, compliant:compliant);
exit(0);
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