# Fail2Ban jail specifications file # # WARNING: heavily refactored in 0.9.0 release. Please review and # customize settings for your setup. # # Comments: use '#' for comment lines and ';' for inline comments # # Changes: in most of the cases you should not modify this # file, but provide customizations in jail.local file, # or separate .conf files under jail.d/ directory, e.g.: # # [DEFAULT] # bantime = 3600 # # [sshd] # enabled = true # # See jail.conf(5) man page for more information # The DEFAULT allows a global definition of the options. They can be overridden # in each jail afterwards. [DEFAULT] # # MISCELLANEOUS OPTIONS # # "ignoreip" can be an IP address, a CIDR mask or a DNS host. Fail2ban will not # ban a host which matches an address in this list. Several addresses can be # defined using space separator. ignoreip = 127.0.0.1/8 # "bantime" is the number of seconds that a host is banned. bantime = 600 # A host is banned if it has generated "maxretry" during the last "findtime" # seconds. findtime = 600 # "maxretry" is the number of failures before a host get banned. maxretry = 5 # "backend" specifies the backend used to get files modification. # Available options are "pyinotify", "gamin", "polling" and "auto". # This option can be overridden in each jail as well. # # pyinotify: requires pyinotify (a file alteration monitor) to be installed. # If pyinotify is not installed, Fail2ban will use auto. # gamin: requires Gamin (a file alteration monitor) to be installed. # If Gamin is not installed, Fail2ban will use auto. # polling: uses a polling algorithm which does not require external libraries. # auto: will try to use the following backends, in order: # pyinotify, gamin, polling. backend = auto # "usedns" specifies if jails should trust hostnames in logs, # warn when DNS lookups are performed, or ignore all hostnames in logs # # yes: if a hostname is encountered, a DNS lookup will be performed. # warn: if a hostname is encountered, a DNS lookup will be performed, # but it will be logged as a warning. # no: if a hostname is encountered, will not be used for banning, # but it will be logged as info. usedns = warn # "logencoding" specifies the encoding of the log files handled by the jail # This is used to decode the lines from the log file. # Typical examples: "ascii", "utf-8" # # auto: will use the system locale setting logencoding = auto # "enabled" enables the jails. # By default all (but sshd) jails are disabled. # It is unlikely that the default value should ever be changed. # Enable only relevant to your setup jails in your .local or jail.d/*.conf # # true: jail will be enabled and log files will get monitored for changes # false: jail is not enabled enabled = false # "filter" defines the filter to use by the jail. # By default jails have names matching their filter name # filter = %(__name__)s # # ACTIONS # # Some options used for actions # Destination email address used solely for the interpolations in # jail.{conf,local} configuration files. destemail = root@localhost # E-mail action. Since 0.8.1 Fail2Ban uses sendmail MTA for the # mailing. Change mta configuration parameter to mail if you want to # revert to conventional 'mail'. mta = sendmail # Default protocol protocol = tcp # Specify chain where jumps would need to be added in iptables-* actions chain = INPUT # Ports to be banned # Usually should be overridden in a particular jail port = 0:65535 # # Action shortcuts. To be used to define action parameter # Default banning action (e.g. iptables, iptables-new, # iptables-multiport, shorewall, etc) It is used to define # action_* variables. Can be overridden globally or per # section within jail.local file banaction = iptables-multiport # The simplest action to take: ban only action_ = %(banaction)s[name=%(__name__)s, port="%(port)s", protocol="%(protocol)s", chain="%(chain)s"] # ban & send an e-mail with whois report to the destemail. action_mw = %(banaction)s[name=%(__name__)s, port="%(port)s", protocol="%(protocol)s", chain="%(chain)s"] %(mta)s-whois[name=%(__name__)s, dest="%(destemail)s", protocol="%(protocol)s", chain="%(chain)s"] # ban & send an e-mail with whois report and relevant log lines # to the destemail. action_mwl = %(banaction)s[name=%(__name__)s, port="%(port)s", protocol="%(protocol)s", chain="%(chain)s"] %(mta)s-whois-lines[name=%(__name__)s, dest="%(destemail)s", logpath=%(logpath)s, chain="%(chain)s"] # Choose default action. To change, just override value of 'action' with the # interpolation to the chosen action shortcut (e.g. action_mw, action_mwl, etc) in jail.local # globally (section [DEFAULT]) or per specific section action = %(action_)s # # JAILS # # # SSH servers # [sshd] enabled = true port = ssh logpath = /var/log/auth.log /var/log/sshd.log [sshd-ddos] port = ssh logpath = /var/log/auth.log /var/log/sshd.log [dropbear] port = ssh filter = sshd logpath = /var/log/dropbear # Generic filter for PAM. Has to be used with action which bans all # ports such as iptables-allports, shorewall [pam-generic] # pam-generic filter can be customized to monitor specific subset of 'tty's banaction = iptables-allports logpath = /var/log/auth.log [xinetd-fail] banaction = iptables-multiport-log logpath = /var/log/daemon.log maxretry = 2 # .. custom jails # Here we use TCP-Wrappers instead of Netfilter/Iptables. "ignoreregex" is # used to avoid banning the user "myuser". [sshd-tcpwrapper] filter = sshd action = hostsdeny sendmail-whois[name=SSH, dest=you@example.com] ignoreregex = for myuser from logpath = /var/log/sshd.log # Here we use blackhole routes for not requiring any additional kernel support # to store large volumes of banned IPs [sshd-route] filter = sshd action = route logpath = /var/log/sshd.log # Here we use a combination of Netfilter/Iptables and IPsets # for storing large volumes of banned IPs # # IPset comes in two versions. See ipset -V for which one to use # requires the ipset package and kernel support. [sshd-iptables-ipset4] filter = sshd action = iptables-ipset-proto4[name=SSH, port=ssh, protocol=tcp] logpath = /var/log/sshd.log [sshd-iptables-ipset6] filter = sshd action = iptables-ipset-proto6[name=SSH, port=ssh, protocol=tcp, bantime=600] logpath = /var/log/sshd.log # This jail uses ipfw, the standard firewall on FreeBSD. The "ignoreip" # option is overridden in this jail. Moreover, the action "mail-whois" defines # the variable "name" which contains a comma using "". The characters '' are # valid too. [sshd-ipfw] filter = sshd action = ipfw[localhost=192.168.0.1] sendmail-whois[name="SSH,IPFW", dest=you@example.com] logpath = /var/log/auth.log ignoreip = 168.192.0.1 # # HTTP servers # [apache-auth] port = http,https logpath = /var/log/apache*/*error.log # Ban hosts which agent identifies spammer robots crawling the web # for email addresses. The mail outputs are buffered. [apache-badbots] port = http,https logpath = /var/log/apache*/*access.log /var/www/*/logs/access_log bantime = 172800 maxretry = 1 [apache-noscript] port = http,https logpath = /var/log/apache*/*error.log maxretry = 6 [apache-overflows] port = http,https logpath = /var/log/apache*/*error.log maxretry = 2 # Ban attackers that try to use PHP's URL-fopen() functionality # through GET/POST variables. - Experimental, with more than a year # of usage in production environments. [php-url-fopen] port = http,https logpath = /var/www/*/logs/access_log # A simple PHP-fastcgi jail which works with lighttpd. # If you run a lighttpd server, then you probably will # find these kinds of messages in your error_log: # ALERT – tried to register forbidden variable ‘GLOBALS’ # through GET variables (attacker '1.2.3.4', file '/var/www/default/htdocs/index.php') [lighttpd-fastcgi] port = http,https logpath = /var/log/lighttpd/error.log # Same as above for mod_auth # It catches wrong authentifications [lighttpd-auth] port = http,https logpath = /var/log/lighttpd/error.log [roundcube-auth] port = http,https logpath = /var/log/roundcube/userlogins [sogo-auth] port = http,https # without proxy this would be: # port = 20000 logpath = /var/log/sogo/sogo.log # ... custom jails [apache-tcpwrapper] filter = apache-auth action = hostsdeny logpath = /var/log/apache*/*error.log maxretry = 6 # # FTP servers # [proftpd] port = ftp,ftp-data,ftps,ftps-data logpath = /var/log/proftpd/proftpd.log [pure-ftpd] port = ftp,ftp-data,ftps,ftps-data logpath = /var/log/auth.log maxretry = 6 [vsftpd] port = ftp,ftp-data,ftps,ftps-data logpath = /var/log/vsftpd.log # or overwrite it in jails.local to be # logpath = /var/log/auth.log # if you want to rely on PAM failed login attempts # vsftpd's failregex should match both of those formats # Do not ban anybody. Just report information about the remote host. # A notification is sent at most every 600 seconds (bantime). [vsftpd-notification] filter = vsftpd action = sendmail-whois[name=VSFTPD, dest=you@example.com] logpath = /var/log/vsftpd.log maxretry = 5 bantime = 1800 [wuftpd] port = ftp,ftp-data,ftps,ftps-data logpath = /var/log/syslog maxretry = 6 # # Mail servers # [courier-smtp] port = smtp,ssmtp logpath = /var/log/mail.log [postfix] port = smtp,ssmtp logpath = /var/log/mail.log # The hosts.deny path can be defined with the "file" argument if it is # not in /etc. [postfix-tcpwrapper] filter = postfix action = hostsdeny[file=/not/a/standard/path/hosts.deny] sendmail[name=Postfix, dest=you@example.com] logpath = /var/log/postfix.log bantime = 300 # # Mail servers authenticators: might be used for smtp,ftp,imap servers, so # all relevant ports get banned # [courier-auth] port = smtp,ssmtp,imap2,imap3,imaps,pop3,pop3s logpath = /var/log/mail.log [sasl] port = smtp,ssmtp,imap2,imap3,imaps,pop3,pop3s # You might consider monitoring /var/log/mail.warn instead if you are # running postfix since it would provide the same log lines at the # "warn" level but overall at the smaller filesize. logpath = /var/log/mail.log [dovecot] port = smtp,ssmtp,imap2,imap3,imaps,pop3,pop3s logpath = /var/log/mail.log # # DNS servers # # These jails block attacks against named (bind9). By default, logging is off # with bind9 installation. You will need something like this: # # logging { # channel security_file { # file "/var/log/named/security.log" versions 3 size 30m; # severity dynamic; # print-time yes; # }; # category security { # security_file; # }; # }; # # in your named.conf to provide proper logging. # This jail blocks UDP traffic for DNS requests. # !!! WARNING !!! # Since UDP is connection-less protocol, spoofing of IP and imitation # of illegal actions is way too simple. Thus enabling of this filter # might provide an easy way for implementing a DoS against a chosen # victim. See # http://nion.modprobe.de/blog/archives/690-fail2ban-+-dns-fail.html # Please DO NOT USE this jail unless you know what you are doing. # # [named-refused-udp] # # filter = named-refused # port = domain,953 # protocol = udp # logpath = /var/log/named/security.log # ignoreip = 168.192.0.1 # This jail blocks TCP traffic for DNS requests. [named-refused] filter = named-refused port = domain,953 logpath = /var/log/named/security.log ignoreip = 168.192.0.1 # # Miscelaneous # # Multiple jails, 1 per protocol, are necessary ATM: # see https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/37 [asterisk-tcp] filter = asterisk port = 5060,5061 protocol = tcp logpath = /var/log/asterisk/messages maxretry = 10 [asterisk-udp] filter = asterisk port = 5060,5061 protocol = udp logpath = /var/log/asterisk/messages maxretry = 10 # To log wrong MySQL access attempts add to /etc/my.cnf: # log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log # log-warning = 2 [mysqld-auth] port = 3306 logpath = /var/log/mysqld.log [guacamole] port = http,https logpath = /var/log/tomcat*/catalina.out # Jail for more extended banning of persistent abusers # !!! WARNING !!! # Make sure that your loglevel specified in fail2ban.conf/.local # is not at DEBUG level -- which might then cause fail2ban to fall into # an infinite loop constantly feeding itself with non-informative lines [recidive] logpath = /var/log/fail2ban.log action = iptables-allports[name=recidive] sendmail-whois-lines[name=recidive, logpath=/var/log/fail2ban.log] bantime = 604800 ; 1 week findtime = 86400 ; 1 day maxretry = 5