TMA-PALOALTO-6.1
Ensure that antivirus profiles are set to reset-both on all decoders except 'imap' and 'pop3'
Description
Configure antivirus profiles to a value of 'reset-both' for all decoders except imap and pop3 under both Action and WildFire Action. If required by the organization's email implementation, configure imap and pop3 decoders to 'alert' under both Action and WildFire Action. FAILs if any antivirus profile sets action or wildfire-action on the ftp, http, http2, smb or smtp decoder to anything other than reset-both (imap/pop3 may use alert). Audited against the PAN-OS running configuration in set format: run 'set cli config-output-format set', then 'configure' and 'show' (or 'show config running') and save the full output.
How it is checked
Audit method: Configuration pattern
- Pattern
(?m)^set (?:shared |vsys \S+ |device-group \S+ |template \S+ config (?:shared |vsys \S+ )?)?profiles virus (?:"[^"\n]*"|\S+) decoder (?:ftp|http|http2|smb|smtp) (?:action|wildfire-action) (?:default|allow|alert|drop|reset-client|reset-server)[ \t]*$
How it is fixed
Fix method: Guidance or infrastructure patch
configure set profiles virus <profile> decoder http action reset-both set profiles virus <profile> decoder http wildfire-action reset-both (repeat for ftp, http2, smb, smtp) commit # CIS guidance: Navigate to Objects > Security Profiles > Antivirus. Set antivirus profiles to have all decoders set to reset-both for both Action and Wildfire Action. If imap and pop3 are required in the organization, set the imap and pop3 decoders to alert for both Action and Wildfire Action.
Properties
- Operating systems
- Any
- Tags
- paloaltothreat-prevention
- Reference
- CIS Palo Alto Firewall 11 Benchmark v1.2.0 - 6.1 Ensure that antivirus profiles are set to reset-both on all decoders except 'imap' and 'pop3'
Check this host
Run this on a machine you are allowed to audit. The scan is read-only.
tmaegis scan --target paloalto