# This module enables a simple firewall. { config, pkgs, ... }: with pkgs.lib; let cfg = config.networking.firewall; in { ###### interface options = { networking.firewall.enable = mkOption { default = false; description = '' Whether to enable the firewall. This is a simple stateful firewall that blocks connection attempts to unauthorised TCP or UDP ports on this machine. It does not affect packet forwarding. ''; }; networking.firewall.logRefusedConnections = mkOption { default = true; description = '' Whether to log rejected or dropped incoming connections. ''; }; networking.firewall.logRefusedPackets = mkOption { default = false; description = '' Whether to log all rejected or dropped incoming packets. This tends to give a lot of log messages, so it's mostly useful for debugging. ''; }; networking.firewall.rejectPackets = mkOption { default = false; description = '' If set, forbidden packets are rejected rather than dropped (ignored). This means that a ICMP "port unreachable" error message is sent back to the client. Rejecting packets makes port scanning somewhat easier. ''; }; networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = mkOption { default = []; example = [ 22 80 ]; type = types.list types.int; description = '' List of TCP ports on which incoming connections are accepted. ''; }; networking.firewall.allowedUDPPorts = mkOption { default = []; example = [ 53 ]; type = types.list types.int; description = '' List of open UDP ports. ''; }; networking.firewall.allowPing = mkOption { default = false; type = types.bool; description = '' Whether to respond to incoming ICMPv4 echo requests ("pings"). ICMPv6 pings are always allowed because the larger address space of IPv6 makes network scanning much less effective. ''; }; networking.firewall.extraCommands = mkOption { default = ""; example = "iptables -A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT"; description = '' Additional shell commands executed as part of the firewall initialisation script. These are executed just before the final "reject" firewall rule is added, so they can be used to allow packets that would otherwise be refused. ''; }; }; ###### implementation # !!! Maybe if `enable' is false, the firewall should still be built # but not started by default. However, currently nixos-rebuild # doesn't deal with such Upstart jobs properly (it starts them if # they are changed, regardless of whether the start condition # holds). config = mkIf cfg.enable { environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.iptables ]; jobs.firewall = { startOn = "started network-interfaces"; path = [ pkgs.iptables ]; preStart = '' # Helper command to manipulate both the IPv4 and IPv6 tables. ip46tables() { iptables "$@" ip6tables "$@" } ip46tables -F INPUT ip46tables -F FW_REFUSE || true ip46tables -X # flush unused chains ip46tables -P INPUT ACCEPT # The "FW_REFUSE" chain performs logging and # rejecting/dropping of packets. ip46tables -N FW_REFUSE ${optionalString cfg.logRefusedConnections '' ip46tables -A FW_REFUSE -p tcp --syn -j LOG --log-level info --log-prefix "rejected connection: " ''} ${optionalString cfg.logRefusedPackets '' ip46tables -A FW_REFUSE -j LOG --log-level info --log-prefix "rejected packet: " ''} ip46tables -A FW_REFUSE -j ${if cfg.rejectPackets then "REJECT" else "DROP"} # Accept all traffic on the loopback interface. ip46tables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT # Accept packets from established or related connections. ip46tables -A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT # Accept connections to the allowed TCP ports. ${concatMapStrings (port: '' ip46tables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport ${toString port} -j ACCEPT '' ) cfg.allowedTCPPorts } # Accept packets on the allowed UDP ports. ${concatMapStrings (port: '' ip46tables -A INPUT -p udp --dport ${toString port} -j ACCEPT '' ) cfg.allowedUDPPorts } # Accept IPv4 multicast. Not a big security risk since # probably nobody is listening anyway. iptables -A INPUT -d 224.0.0.0/4 -j ACCEPT # Optionally respond to ICMPv4 pings. ${optionalString cfg.allowPing '' iptables -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type echo-request -j ACCEPT ''} # Accept all ICMPv6 messages except redirects and node # information queries (type 139). See RFC 4890, section # 4.4. ip6tables -A INPUT -p icmpv6 --icmpv6-type redirect -j DROP ip6tables -A INPUT -p icmpv6 --icmpv6-type 139 -j DROP ip6tables -A INPUT -p icmpv6 -j ACCEPT ${cfg.extraCommands} # Reject/drop everything else. ip46tables -A INPUT -j FW_REFUSE ''; postStop = '' iptables -F INPUT iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT ip6tables -F INPUT ip6tables -P INPUT ACCEPT ''; }; }; }