I am a beginner using AWS EC2 sercices. During the weekend, I managed to set-up EC2 instances, using security groups, connecting using Putty, ...
I come this monday at work and I can't connect anymore to an EC2 instance. I imagine this is linked to a company firewall rule.
I am feeling this is due to port 22 being blocked for SSH by my company firewall. And apparently I can't change port 22 for SSH during the set-up of security group.
So, what can I do ? Knowing that I would like to avoid the need to rely on the IT folks of my company, this takes forever.
I come this Monday at work and I can't connect anymore to an EC2
instance. I imagine this is linked to a company firewall rule.
A company firewall may not be the only reason, there might be the chance that your security group only Allow traffic from the home network? Go to EC2 instance and verify the Security Group.
Second thing try to ssh from other network or verify from IT team regarding term and policy so you should aware why the 22 is being blocked.
A very clear answer about this approach but it does not mean to violate the company policy and rule just discuss these approach with your Network Team.
DISCLAIMER:
All the option below, can lead you to be fired for
violating your organization security policy. If there is a Network
Administrator that is constantly checking for abnormal traffic peaks
and patterns, you could be caught. If you don't want to follow the
path of making a technical kludge to get the access,
Option 1: Put ssh to listen on a different port.
Option 2: Redirect the traffic incoming from another port to
tcp/22(ssh)
Option 3: Use shellinabox to make a remote web terminal.AVOID USING
HTTP. Use a certificate as explained at the shellinabox manpages, even
if it is self-signed.
Option 4(non-root solution): Pay for a simple server at a cloud
provider(one that costs 5-10US$ month) to have a ssh jumpbox.
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In last few days my Google VM is continuously being compromised, I have received warning and faced suspension of VM by Google saying "cryptocurrency mining activities was found on VM". I suspect someone has hacked my VM and doing this activity. So, now I want to create a new VM with secure SSH firewall such that only limited computers can access the VM.
I have tried setting the IP of my office routers on firewall ssh allow rule, but after setting this rule also SSH connection to VM do get established from other IP addresses. I just want to specify two IPs in firewall rule but it expects IP ranges in CIDR format (with which I am not clear).
I have also found some suggestions that I should change the ssh port of the VM.
Can anybody please explain how can I restrict the access to my Google VM to only a specific set of computers when this computers are connected to a router and external IP is same for all i.e. of router?
Thanks
I understand you want to create a new VM with secure firewall SSH and want to restrict and allow access from particular IP addresses of your office router.
To do that you can create firewall rules as explained here 1. To manage the access for a specific instance, I recommend you to use Network Tags for firewall rules 2.
Going back to your concern, that SSH connection to VM do get established from other IP addresses even when you create the firewall rule for the specific IP address. The reason for that might be due to this:
Every project you create in GCP comes with the default firewall rules.
So there might be one default-allow-ssh rule which you need to block, I guess that might be causing the issue. Note that the default network includes some additional rules that override this one, allowing certain types of incoming traffic. See the attached link[3][4] for more details.
[3]https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/firewalls#default_firewall_rules
[4]https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/firewalls#more_rules_default_vpc
You can also add guest-level firewall rule using for example "iptables" to add another security level to your VM instance. However, GCP project-level firewall rule takes care of inspecting network traffic before it goes to your VM instances. Operating system Firewall blocks all internet traffic to any port 22.
In order to allow a specific address to be able to connect on your VM instance, you may add a CIDR of /32 on the "IP ranges" value of your "default-allow-ssh" GCP firewall rule. For example, 45.56.122.7/32 and 208.43.25.31/32.
Another bad day. I have all the configuration for my ec2 instance.
Till yesterday I was able to connect it via ssh on mac. but know why it's not getting connect now.
Configuration is as below:
Security Group:-
I'm using below steps as usual and I'm same directory where mypleaks-inst.pem kept.
My guess: Your security group that was applied was "launch-wizard-2" which by default sets exlusion rules. You need to associate that EC2 instance with one of the two security groups listed in your second screen shot to allow TCP connections on port 22 from inbound ip range. OR you could modify launch-wizard-2 to incorporate the relevant rules to allow for ssh connection.
if you're sure nothing was changed on AWS side then perhaps your SSH service is down temporarily or permanently (the server was overloaded? You can do it with ease with T2.small).
Check NACL and routing, otherwise.
I recently start using GCP but i have one thing i can't solve.
I have: 1 VM + 1 DB Instance + 1 LB. DB instance allow only conections from the VM IP. bUT THE VM IP allow traffic from all ip (if i configure the firewall to only allow CloudFlare and LB IP's the website crash and refuse conections).
Recently i was under attack, i activate the Cloudflare ddos mode, restart all and in like 6 h the attack come back with the Cloudflare activate. Wen i see mysql conections bump from 20-30 to 254 and all conections are from the IP of the VM so i think the problem are the public accesibility of the VM but i don't know how to solved it...
If i activate my firewall rules to only allow traffic from LB and Cloudflare the web refuses all conections..
Any idea what i can do?
Thanks.
Cloud Support here, unfortunately, we do not have visibility into what is installed on your instance or what software caused the issue.
Generally speaking you're responsible for investigating the source of the vulnerability and taking steps to mitigate it.
I'm writing here some hints that will help you:
Make sure you keep your firewall rules in a sensible manner, e.g. is not a good practice to have a firewall rule to allow all ingress connections on port 22 from all source IPs for obvious reasons.
Since you've already been rooted, change all your passwords: within the Cloud SQL instance, within the GCE instance, even within the GCP project.
It's also a good idea to check who has access to your service accounts, just in case people that aren't currently working for you or your company still have access to them.
If you're using certificates revoke them, generate new ones and share them in a secure way and with the minimum required number of users.
Securing GCE instances is a shared responsability, in general, OWASP hardening guides are really good.
I'm quoting some info here from another StackOverflow thread that might be useful in your case:
General security advice for Google Cloud Platform instances:
Set user permissions at project level.
Connect securely to your instance.
Ensure the project firewall is not open to everyone on the internet.
Use a strong password and store passwords securely.
Ensure that all software is up to date.
Monitor project usage closely via the monitoring API to identify abnormal project usage.
To diagnose trouble with GCE instances, serial port output from the instance can be useful.
You can check the serial port output by clicking on the instance name
and then on "Serial port 1 (console)". Note that this logs are wipped
when instances are shutdown & rebooted, and the log is not visible
when the instance is not started.
Stackdriver monitoring is also helpful to provide an audit trail to
diagnose problems.
You can use the Stackdriver Monitoring Console to set up alerting policies matching given conditions (under which a service is considered unhealthy) that can be set up to trigger email/SMS notifications.
This quickstart for Google Compute Engine instances can be completed in ~10 minutes and shows the convenience of monitoring instances.
Here are some hints you can check on keeping GCP projects secure.
I've been using AWS for a few months without any problem. But from yesterday, I can't access the website. When I ping the IP (52.24.23.108) it displays request time out. Server's status is okay - that I checked from AWS console. Isn't it a network problem of Amazon Webservices?
You need to enable the specified network traffic type (ICMP) through your security groups for your instance. You can do this by choosing Security Groups > select your security group and choose Edit Inbound Rules
Choose "ICMP" from the dropdown and source (* if you want it from everywhere) then Add Rule
PINGs should work!
A couple things could cause this, most likely you provisioned the instance with a public IP, by NOT a n elastic IP. If you had a server restart, either by your doing or by AWS, then your public IP would be dropped. If you did use a elastic IP, then look at your security group to see if you allow icmp still or if the security group changed.
Another cause may be if a server level firewall had been disabled in the past, but if your server went through a restart it may have started again. What base OS are you using?
I've read a lot of questions already posted on this topic but none seem to provide an answer that helps, so forgive me for the duplicate post if I missed one...
I setup an elastic beanstalk single instance application. I then ensure'd the EC2 instance that it spawned had a security group to allow port 80 incoming requests. I then created an elastic ip and associated the EC2 instance with the ip, but neither the public dns or the elastic ip will respond to http requests.
Any ideas why this might be an issue for me?
In my case the problem was, even though I'd associated my elastic IP to my instance and created firewall rules in new security groups to provide access, I hadn't associated my new security groups with my instance. To fix this, I used the Change Security Groups menu from my Instances screen:
This caused the following popup to appear, where, sure enough, my new security groups existed but weren't associated with my instance:
After I (1) checked the appropriate boxes and (2) clicked on Assign Security Groups, all was well.
In classic-EC2 scenario:
Make sure port 80 is allowed in your AWS security group.
Make sure port 80 is allowed in local operating based firewall on your system. OR disable the local firewall for the time being to narrow down the issue.
Make sure that your application is indeed listening on port 80. You can check this by running telnet 127.0.0.1 80.
If above 3 points are satisfied, I don't see a reason why you are not able to access your application on port 80.
Let us know in case you are using VPC and not classic-EC2.
BTW, when you attach elastic IP, the instance will drop the public DNS that it had earlier. So now you should work with elastic IP only.
I have had a case where the elastic IP address was itself not responding on a specific port number. When I associated the instance with a different elastic IP, everything worked fine. So I resolved the issue by allocating a new elastic IP address. Root cause: Amazon evidently does not have an effective internal process for validating the integrity of an elastic IP. Obviously that's a tall order considering the things outside their control that can happen, with denial of service attacks and etc.
It cost me a day of doing progressive isolation to get to this, which I would have never otherwise suspected.
Any chance there is also a firewall running on the machine? I know in windows I usually need to open the port on the windows firewall AND on amazon's security.