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Compliance · Critical severity

GCP Firewall Rule Allows Internet Access to Sensitive Port

An administrative port is open to the whole internet, which is the entry point most commonly used in intrusions.

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Google Cloudprovider
Criticalseverity
Compliancewhere it shows up
Manualfix, steps written out

Google Cloud

Found, explained, handed over.

Where the estate departs from your policies, frameworks and tagging rules.

01

Detect

ZopNight checks this automatically across Google Cloud, with read-only access to the account.

02

Explain

Every finding says exactly what to change: Restrict sensitive port access on firewall rule.

03

Fix

The finding opens with the fix already written out, step by step, so it is one ticket, not an investigation.

Applies to
VPC Firewall Rules on Google Cloud
The fix, by hand
  1. VPC network → Firewall → the resource → Edit.
  2. Replace 0.0.0.0/0 in Source IP ranges with your office CIDR or VPN CIDR.
  3. For SSH / RDP, delete the rule entirely and adopt Identity-Aware Proxy (gcloud compute start-iap-tunnel).
  4. For public web, leave :443 but front via Cloud Armor with a managed WAF policy.

These are the steps the finding carries in the product.

Category
Compliance. Configuration drift from best practice: public access, missing MFA, unencrypted storage, deprecated runtimes.
Where it appears
The Compliance tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.
Rule ID
RC-134
Full reference

GCP Firewall Rule Allows Internet Access to Sensitive Port

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