Azure Virtual machine NIC has IP forwarding enabled

Description

By disabling IP forwarding on the NIC of your Azure virtual machine, you can help to prevent the virtual machine from acting as a router and forwarding traffic to unintended destinations. This can help to improve the security of your virtual machine and protect it from potential threats such as man-in-the-middle attacks or data breaches.

Code Example

resource "azurerm_network_interface" "example" {
                  ...
 +                enable_ip_forwarding = false
                }

Remediation

Terraform

• Resource: azurerm_network_interface
• Arguments: enable_ip_forwarding

Rule Details

Field	Value
ID	IAC-0625
Severity	INFO
IaC Type	Terraform
Frameworks	Terraform,
Checkov ID	CKV_AZURE_118

References

• Checkov Rule

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