More Info:

Control Plane endpoint access should be limited to authorized networks only

Risk Level

Critical

Address

Security, Reliability, Best Practice

Compliance Standards

HITRUST, SOC2, NISTCSF, PCIDSS

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

To remediate the control plane endpoint access misconfiguration in GCP, you can follow these steps:

  1. Open the Google Cloud Console and navigate to the VPC network page.
  2. Select the VPC network that you want to configure.
  3. Click on the “Firewall rules” tab.
  4. Click on the “Create Firewall Rule” button.
  5. In the “Name” field, enter a name for the firewall rule.
  6. In the “Targets” field, select “All instances in the network”.
  7. In the “Source IP ranges” field, enter the IP address range of the authorized networks that should have access to the control plane endpoint.
  8. In the “Protocols and ports” section, select “Specified protocols and ports”.
  9. In the “Specified protocols and ports” field, enter “tcp:443”.
  10. Click on the “Create” button to create the firewall rule.

This will create a firewall rule that will restrict access to the control plane endpoint to only the authorized networks that you specified.