This bug was fixed in the package ufw - 0.36-0ubuntu0.18.10.1
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ufw (0.36-0ubuntu0.18.10.1) cosmic-proposed; urgency=medium
* Backport to cosmic addressing the following SRU bugs:
- LP: #1811129 - master SRU bug
- LP: #1664133 - before6.rules: echo-reply needs to be before INVALID
- LP: #1719211 - improve interface name checks
- LP: #1775043 - shell-completion/bash: adjust for modern bash
- LP: #1204579 - support concurrent updates
- LP: #1368411 - add 'prepend' command
-- Jamie Strandboge <ja...@ubuntu.com> Mon, 25 Mar 2019 20:46:10 +0000
** Changed in: ufw (Ubuntu Cosmic)
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1368411
Title:
Cannot insert IPV6 rule before IPV4 rules
Status in ufw:
Fix Released
Status in ufw package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in ufw source package in Bionic:
Fix Released
Status in ufw source package in Cosmic:
Fix Released
Status in ufw source package in Disco:
Fix Released
Status in ufw package in Debian:
Fix Released
Bug description:
[Impact]
ufw's 'insert' command is designed to work with 'ufw status numbered'
to insert rules in specific places in the ruleset. This makes it more
difficult than it should be for using ufw as part of an IPS/dynamic
firewall (eg, fail2ban) since if the firewall already has an IPv4 rule
then the user/IPS must calculate the position of an IPv6-only rule
before inserting it.
From the git commit:
"
add 'prepend' command
Introduce 'prepend' command to add rules to the top of the IPv4 and/or
IPv6 chains. This is particularly useful for dynamic firewalls/IPS (eg,
fail2ban). Unlike 'insert', 'prepend' does not require knowledge about
the IPv6 rule number so integration into IPS is much easier.
"
[Test Case]
$ sudo ufw allow 22/tcp
$ sudo ufw allow from 1.2.3.4
$ sudo ufw allow from 2001:db8::/32
$ sudo ufw enable
$ sudo ufw status numbered
...
[ 1] 22/tcp ALLOW IN Anywhere
[ 2] Anywhere ALLOW IN 1.2.3.4
[ 3] 22/tcp (v6) ALLOW IN Anywhere (v6)
[ 4] Anywhere (v6) ALLOW IN 2001:db8::/32
# unchanged from 0.35
$ sudo ufw insert 1 deny from 2a02:2210:12:a:b820:fff:fea2:25d1
ERROR: Invalid position '1'
# new in 0.36
$ sudo ufw prepend deny from 2a02:2210:12:a:b820:fff:fea2:25d1
$ sudo ufw prepend deny from 6.7.8.9
$ sudo ufw status numbered
...
[ 1] Anywhere DENY IN 6.7.8.9
[ 2] 22/tcp ALLOW IN Anywhere
[ 3] Anywhere ALLOW IN 1.2.3.4
[ 4] Anywhere (v6) DENY IN 2a02:2210:12:a:b820:fff:fea2:25d1
[ 5] 22/tcp (v6) ALLOW IN Anywhere (v6)
[ 6] Anywhere (v6) ALLOW IN 2001:db8::/32
[Regression Potential]
ufw has a clean methodology for adding new commands so while
frontend.py necessarily has some logic changes to calculate where to
insert the rule (ie, if IPv4 at the top, if IPv6 before other IPv6
rules and if both, both), the changes were minimal and only are used
if 'prepend' is specified (so people only using the previous command
set should be fine).
[Other Info]
The ufw prepend command is new in 0.36 and thus only available in
Debian, Ubuntu disco and the ufw snap for a few weeks. The snap is
known to work with fail2ban and the prepend command in production
environments since it was available.
= Original description =
I am unable to insert any rules concerning IPV6 before IPV4 rules. Thus, when
IPV4 rules are numbered 1 to 5 and IPV6 rules are numbered 6 to 10, the
following command:
[code]
ufw insert 1 deny from 2a02:2210:12:a:b820:fff:fea2:25d1
[/code]
errors with "ERROR: Invalid position '1'".
However, the command
[code]
ufw insert 6 deny from 2a02:2210:12:a:b820:fff:fea2:25d1
[/code]
succeeds.
In my case, this poses a problem, since I am trying to insert rules
from a script against brute force attacks. The script needs to insert
blocking rules before a number of other rules that open up some ports
(since the order of rules is important in ufw). However since the
number of IPV4 rules will be changing all the time, the position of
the first available number for an IPV6 address is hard to determine.
Proposed solution: either allow IPV6 rules to precede IPV4 rules, or
implement a keyword defining the first available position; e.g. "ufw
insert first deny from 2a02:2210:12:a:b820:fff:fea2:25d1".
BTW: this was all figured out with ufw version 0.31.1-1, Ubuntu
12.04.5 LTS,
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