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An ingress Network ACL rule allows specific ports from /0.

Default Severity: critical

Explanation

Opening up ACLs to the public internet is potentially dangerous. You should restrict access to IP addresses or ranges that explicitly require it where possible.

Possible Impact

The ports are exposed for ingressing data to the internet

Suggested Resolution

Set a more restrictive cidr range

Insecure Example

The following example will fail the aws-vpc-no-public-ingress-acl check. 

 resource "aws_network_acl_rule" "bad_example" {
   egress         = false
   protocol       = "tcp"
   from_port      = 22
   to_port        = 22
   rule_action    = "allow"
   cidr_block     = "0.0.0.0/0"
 }

Secure Example

The following example will pass the aws-vpc-no-public-ingress-acl check. 

 resource "aws_network_acl_rule" "good_example" {
   egress         = false
   protocol       = "tcp"
   from_port      = 22
   to_port        = 22
   rule_action    = "allow"
   cidr_block     = "10.0.0.0/16"
 }