Vulnerabilities
Misconfiguration
Runtime Security
Compliance
Google > Compute >

No Ip Forwarding

HIGH
Source
Trivy
ID
AVD-GCP-0043
terraform

Instances should not have IP forwarding enabled

Disabling IP forwarding ensures the instance can only receive packets addressed to the instance and can only send packets with a source address of the instance.

Impact

Follow the appropriate remediation steps below to resolve the issue.

Disable IP forwarding

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resource "google_compute_instance" "good_example" {
  name         = "test"
  machine_type = "e2-medium"
  zone         = "us-central1-a"

  boot_disk {
    initialize_params {
      image = "debian-cloud/debian-9"
    }
  }

  // Local SSD disk
  scratch_disk {
    interface = "SCSI"
  }

  can_ip_forward = false
}
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