01-13-2019 03:43 PM
Does anyone have any ideas on how to permit access to Google Maps but block access to all other Google services? I have tried using a rule matching the Google-Maps application however it requires google-base which allows many other Google services. I have also tried using custom URLs for maps.google.com and www.google.com/maps; however, Google maps seems to require access to resources at www.google.com/.
The customer is currently using a Squid proxy with detailed regex expressions to accomplish this. Below are some examples. They would like to remove the proxy and use the firewall only.
acl ALLOWED_URL url_regex -i ^https?://www.google.com/favicon.ico$
acl ALLOWED_URL url_regex -i ^https?://www.google.com/images/branding/product/ico
acl ALLOWED_URL url_regex -i ^https?://www\.google\.com/(maps|xjs)
acl ALLOWED_URL url_regex -i ^https?://www\.google\.com/s(earch)?\?tbm=map
acl ALLOWED_URL url_regex -i ^https?://www\.google\.com/gen_204\?oq=
01-13-2019 05:15 PM
01-14-2019 04:51 AM
I tried that. It doesn't seem to match on the full string. I think Custom URLs only support domains and subdomains, not the variables.
01-14-2019 10:10 AM
You can't use variables for this.
01-14-2019 10:12 AM
I figured that. What other options do I have?
01-14-2019 10:16 AM
To do this easily and cleanly you don't really have any from the firewall directly. Google integrates all of their services pretty tightly and trying to limit all of Google but allowing Maps would require a very large amount of allowed URLs that will likely be constantly changing and breaking things.
01-14-2019 01:29 PM
Using a squid proxy this is fairly straightforward. Hoping this might be accomplished using the PA firewall only.
01-15-2019 11:50 AM
As they work with squid, did you add these urls to the custom url category?
www.google.com/favicon.ico www.google.com/images/branding/product/ico www.google.com/maps www.google.com/xjs www.google.com/search?tbm=map www.google.com/s?tbm=map www.google.com/gen_204?oq=
01-15-2019 04:47 PM
Yes, but it fails to match the following. I I think this is because PANOS only matches on domains, subdomains, and paths not Parameters.
www.google.com/search?tbm=map www.google.com/s?tbm=map www.google.com/gen_204?oq=
01-15-2019 04:56 PM
Are you doing SSL Decryption? Without decryption, the firewall doesn't even see the HTTP request for the maps page, it only sees the hostname of the server they're connecting to, in this case it's www.google.com as the host. Google uses a wildcard cert, so the response from the server is for *.google.com. Since neither is distinguishing the maps service, there would be no way to allow maps but deny others.
PAN-DB does categorize on full URIs, not just domains and hosts. A good example of this is any of the test sites:
https://pandb.paloaltonetworks.com/test-gambling
https://pandb.paloaltonetworks.com/test-phishing
Both of those pages are on the same host and domain, but different paths. PAN-DB will categorize them appropriately.
But if you're not decrypting the SSL (TLS) traffic, the only thing the firewall will see is a TLS Client Hello that has "pandb.paloaltonetworks.com" but not the full URI.
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