permit ip any any entry
At a glance
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Reads the export, not the device
ConfigProof reads a configuration export. This control is evaluated against the objects in that file, and it reports what the file says. It does not connect to the device and sees no traffic, so a finding here describes the configuration, not what the firewall is doing right now.
Why it matters
An ip any any permit turns the list into an allow-all for the traffic it governs, so every entry below it decides nothing.
How to fix it
Web interface
The steps below are written for the web interface. A finding raised on your own export carries the same steps with your object names filled in.
- In ASDM: Configuration > Firewall > Access Rules, select the rule and replace it with rules for the sources, destinations and services that are needed. Apply and save.
- On the CLI: no access-list <list> extended permit ip any any, add the explicit entries, and write memory.
Command line
Cisco ASA CLI
configure terminalno access-list <access-list> line <line> <entry>access-list <access-list> line <line> <scoped-entry>endwrite memory
An example. Values in angle brackets are yours to supply; a finding on your own export fills in the names it read. Typed in configuration mode; write memory saves it, with no separate commit. Read every line first.
Read it back
show access-list <access-list>Values to fill in4
- <access-list>
- The access list
- <line>
- The entry's line number in the list
- <entry>
- The entry's text after the line number, as the device shows it
- <scoped-entry>
- The narrowed entry: the sources, destinations and services that are needed
Before you type it3
- Written from the ASA 9.x command reference and not run on a device: read each line before you paste it.
- In multiple context mode, type it in the context it applies to (changeto context <name>).
- Narrowing this changes who reaches what. Confirm the new set covers the traffic the application needs.
How to confirm the fix
- Run show access-list <list> and confirm no permit ip any any remains.
Limits
- No limitation is recorded for this control beyond the one that applies to all of them: it reads a configuration export.
Compliance references
No benchmark recommendation is mapped to this control in this version.
More in Security Policies
- ASA-SEC-001Inbound entry allows any destination or any service
- ASA-SEC-004Untrusted inbound list without an explicit logged deny
- ASA-SEC-005Entry covered by an earlier entry
- ASA-SEC-006Inactive entry left in a list
- ASA-SEC-009Remote administration, file sharing or database port open inbound
- ASA-SEC-022EtherType list permits any EtherType
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