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PostgreSQL Log Min Messages Flag Should Be Disabled
More Info:
Ensure that the log_min_messages database flag for Cloud SQL PostgreSQL instance is set appropriately.
Risk Level
Low
Address
Security
Compliance Standards
CISGCP, CBP
Triage and Remediation
Remediation
To remediate the PostgreSQL log_min_messages flag misconfiguration in GCP, you can follow the below steps using the GCP console:
- Open the Cloud SQL instances page in the GCP console.
- Select the instance that you want to remediate.
- Click on the “Edit” button at the top of the page.
- Scroll down to the “Flags” section and click on “Add item”.
- In the “Flag name” field, enter “log_min_messages”.
- In the “Flag value” field, enter “WARNING”.
- Click on the “Save” button at the bottom of the page to save the changes.
This will set the log_min_messages flag to “WARNING” which will ensure that only warning messages and above are logged in the PostgreSQL logs.
To remediate the PostgreSQL Log Min Messages Flag Should Be Disabled misconfiguration in GCP using GCP CLI, follow these steps:
-
Open the Cloud Shell in your GCP Console.
-
Connect to your GCP instance that has PostgreSQL installed using the following command:
gcloud compute ssh [INSTANCE_NAME]
Replace [INSTANCE_NAME] with the name of your instance.
- Run the following command to open the PostgreSQL configuration file:
sudo nano /etc/postgresql/[POSTGRESQL_VERSION]/main/postgresql.conf
Replace [POSTGRESQL_VERSION] with the version of PostgreSQL installed on your instance.
-
Locate the line that starts with
log_min_messagesin the configuration file. -
Change the value of
log_min_messagestoWARNINGor higher. This will disable the flag and ensure that only warning messages or higher are logged. -
Save the changes to the configuration file by pressing
CTRL + X, thenY, thenENTER. -
Restart the PostgreSQL service using the following command:
sudo service postgresql restart
- Verify that the PostgreSQL Log Min Messages flag has been disabled by running the following command:
sudo su - postgres -c "psql -c 'SHOW log_min_messages;'"
This should return the new value of log_min_messages.
- Exit the SSH session by running the following command:
exit
Your PostgreSQL Log Min Messages flag is now disabled and your instance is secured.
To remediate the PostgreSQL Log Min Messages Flag misconfiguration in GCP using Python, you can follow the below steps:
- First, you need to connect to the GCP project where the PostgreSQL instance is running. You can use the
google-cloud-sdkandgoogle-authPython packages to authenticate and connect to the GCP project.
from google.oauth2 import service_account
from google.cloud import sql_v1beta4
# Authenticate using a service account key file
credentials = service_account.Credentials.from_service_account_file(
'/path/to/service_account_key.json')
# Connect to the GCP project and get the SQL admin client
project_id = 'your-project-id'
location = 'us-central1'
client = sql_v1beta4.SqlAdminClient(credentials=credentials)
instance_name = 'your-instance-name'
instance_path = f"projects/{project_id}/locations/{location}/instances/{instance_name}"
- Once you have connected to the GCP project and fetched the SQL admin client, you can get the current PostgreSQL instance configuration using the
getmethod of theinstancesresource.
# Get the current instance configuration
instance = client.instances().get(instance=instance_path).execute()
- Check if the
log_min_messagesflag is enabled or not. If it is enabled, you need to update the instance configuration to disable it.
# Check if the log_min_messages flag is enabled
if 'postgresqlConf' in instance and 'log_min_messages' in instance['postgresqlConf']:
if instance['postgresqlConf']['log_min_messages'] != 'ERROR':
# Disable the log_min_messages flag
instance['postgresqlConf']['log_min_messages'] = 'ERROR'
# Update the instance configuration
operation = client.instances().patch(
instance=instance_path,
body={'settings': instance['settings']}
).execute()
# Wait for the operation to complete
client.operations().wait(operation=operation['name']).execute()
print(f"Successfully disabled log_min_messages flag for instance {instance_name}")
else:
print(f"log_min_messages flag is already disabled for instance {instance_name}")
else:
print(f"log_min_messages flag is not set for instance {instance_name}")
- After updating the instance configuration, you can verify if the
log_min_messagesflag is disabled or not by fetching the instance configuration again and checking the value of the flag.
# Fetch the instance configuration again
instance = client.instances().get(instance=instance_path).execute()
# Check if the log_min_messages flag is disabled
if 'postgresqlConf' in instance and 'log_min_messages' in instance['postgresqlConf']:
if instance['postgresqlConf']['log_min_messages'] == 'ERROR':
print(f"log_min_messages flag is now disabled for instance {instance_name}")
else:
print(f"Failed to disable log_min_messages flag for instance {instance_name}")
else:
print(f"log_min_messages flag is not set for instance {instance_name}")
By following the above steps, you can remediate the PostgreSQL Log Min Messages Flag misconfiguration in GCP using Python.