{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }: with lib; let cfg = config.services.fail2ban; fail2banConf = pkgs.writeText "fail2ban.local" cfg.daemonConfig; jailConf = pkgs.writeText "jail.local" '' [INCLUDES] before = paths-nixos.conf ${concatStringsSep "\n" (attrValues (flip mapAttrs cfg.jails (name: def: optionalString (def != "") '' [${name}] ${def} '')))} ''; pathsConf = pkgs.writeText "paths-nixos.conf" '' # NixOS [INCLUDES] before = paths-common.conf after = paths-overrides.local [DEFAULT] ''; in { ###### interface options = { services.fail2ban = { enable = mkOption { default = false; type = types.bool; description = lib.mdDoc '' Whether to enable the fail2ban service. See the documentation of {option}`services.fail2ban.jails` for what jails are enabled by default. ''; }; package = mkOption { default = pkgs.fail2ban; defaultText = literalExpression "pkgs.fail2ban"; type = types.package; example = literalExpression "pkgs.fail2ban_0_11"; description = lib.mdDoc "The fail2ban package to use for running the fail2ban service."; }; packageFirewall = mkOption { default = pkgs.iptables; defaultText = literalExpression "pkgs.iptables"; type = types.package; example = literalExpression "pkgs.nftables"; description = lib.mdDoc "The firewall package used by fail2ban service."; }; extraPackages = mkOption { default = []; type = types.listOf types.package; example = lib.literalExpression "[ pkgs.ipset ]"; description = lib.mdDoc '' Extra packages to be made available to the fail2ban service. The example contains the packages needed by the `iptables-ipset-proto6` action. ''; }; maxretry = mkOption { default = 3; type = types.ints.unsigned; description = lib.mdDoc "Number of failures before a host gets banned."; }; banaction = mkOption { default = "iptables-multiport"; type = types.str; example = "nftables-multiport"; description = lib.mdDoc '' Default banning action (e.g. iptables, iptables-new, iptables-multiport, iptables-ipset-proto6-allports, shorewall, etc) It is used to define action_* variables. Can be overridden globally or per section within jail.local file ''; }; banaction-allports = mkOption { default = "iptables-allport"; type = types.str; example = "nftables-allport"; description = lib.mdDoc '' 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 ''; }; bantime-increment.enable = mkOption { default = false; type = types.bool; description = lib.mdDoc '' Allows to use database for searching of previously banned ip's to increase a default ban time using special formula, default it is banTime * 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32... ''; }; bantime-increment.rndtime = mkOption { default = "4m"; type = types.str; example = "8m"; description = lib.mdDoc '' "bantime-increment.rndtime" is the max number of seconds using for mixing with random time to prevent "clever" botnets calculate exact time IP can be unbanned again ''; }; bantime-increment.maxtime = mkOption { default = "10h"; type = types.str; example = "48h"; description = lib.mdDoc '' "bantime-increment.maxtime" is the max number of seconds using the ban time can reach (don't grows further) ''; }; bantime-increment.factor = mkOption { default = "1"; type = types.str; example = "4"; description = lib.mdDoc '' "bantime-increment.factor" is a coefficient to calculate exponent growing of the formula or common multiplier, default value of factor is 1 and with default value of formula, the ban time grows by 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 ... ''; }; bantime-increment.formula = mkOption { default = "ban.Time * (1<<(ban.Count if ban.Count<20 else 20)) * banFactor"; type = types.str; example = "ban.Time * math.exp(float(ban.Count+1)*banFactor)/math.exp(1*banFactor)"; description = lib.mdDoc '' "bantime-increment.formula" used by default to calculate next value of ban time, default value bellow, the same ban time growing will be reached by multipliers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32... ''; }; bantime-increment.multipliers = mkOption { default = "1 2 4 8 16 32 64"; type = types.str; example = "2 4 16 128"; description = lib.mdDoc '' "bantime-increment.multipliers" used to calculate next value of ban time instead of formula, corresponding previously ban count and given "bantime.factor" (for multipliers default is 1); following example grows ban time by 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 ... and if last ban count greater as multipliers count, always used last multiplier (64 in example), for factor '1' and original ban time 600 - 10.6 hours ''; }; bantime-increment.overalljails = mkOption { default = false; type = types.bool; example = true; description = lib.mdDoc '' "bantime-increment.overalljails" (if true) specifies the search of IP in the database will be executed cross over all jails, if false (default), only current jail of the ban IP will be searched ''; }; ignoreIP = mkOption { default = [ ]; type = types.listOf types.str; example = [ "192.168.0.0/16" "2001:DB8::42" ]; description = lib.mdDoc '' "ignoreIP" can be a list of IP addresses, CIDR masks or DNS hosts. Fail2ban will not ban a host which matches an address in this list. Several addresses can be defined using space (and/or comma) separator. ''; }; daemonConfig = mkOption { default = '' [Definition] logtarget = SYSLOG socket = /run/fail2ban/fail2ban.sock pidfile = /run/fail2ban/fail2ban.pid dbfile = /var/lib/fail2ban/fail2ban.sqlite3 ''; type = types.lines; description = lib.mdDoc '' The contents of Fail2ban's main configuration file. It's generally not necessary to change it. ''; }; jails = mkOption { default = { }; example = literalExpression '' { apache-nohome-iptables = ''' # Block an IP address if it accesses a non-existent # home directory more than 5 times in 10 minutes, # since that indicates that it's scanning. filter = apache-nohome action = iptables-multiport[name=HTTP, port="http,https"] logpath = /var/log/httpd/error_log* backend = auto findtime = 600 bantime = 600 maxretry = 5 '''; dovecot = ''' # block IPs which failed to log-in # aggressive mode add blocking for aborted connections enabled = true filter = dovecot[mode=aggressive] maxretry = 3 '''; } ''; type = types.attrsOf types.lines; description = lib.mdDoc '' The configuration of each Fail2ban “jail”. A jail consists of an action (such as blocking a port using {command}`iptables`) that is triggered when a filter applied to a log file triggers more than a certain number of times in a certain time period. Actions are defined in {file}`/etc/fail2ban/action.d`, while filters are defined in {file}`/etc/fail2ban/filter.d`. NixOS comes with a default `sshd` jail; for it to work well, {option}`services.openssh.logLevel` should be set to `"VERBOSE"` or higher so that fail2ban can observe failed login attempts. This module sets it to `"VERBOSE"` if not set otherwise, so enabling fail2ban can make SSH logs more verbose. ''; }; }; }; ###### implementation config = mkIf cfg.enable { warnings = mkIf (config.networking.firewall.enable == false && config.networking.nftables.enable == false) [ "fail2ban can not be used without a firewall" ]; environment.systemPackages = [ cfg.package ]; environment.etc = { "fail2ban/fail2ban.local".source = fail2banConf; "fail2ban/jail.local".source = jailConf; "fail2ban/fail2ban.conf".source = "${cfg.package}/etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.conf"; "fail2ban/jail.conf".source = "${cfg.package}/etc/fail2ban/jail.conf"; "fail2ban/paths-common.conf".source = "${cfg.package}/etc/fail2ban/paths-common.conf"; "fail2ban/paths-nixos.conf".source = pathsConf; "fail2ban/action.d".source = "${cfg.package}/etc/fail2ban/action.d/*.conf"; "fail2ban/filter.d".source = "${cfg.package}/etc/fail2ban/filter.d/*.conf"; }; systemd.services.fail2ban = { description = "Fail2ban Intrusion Prevention System"; wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ]; after = [ "network.target" ]; partOf = optional config.networking.firewall.enable "firewall.service"; restartTriggers = [ fail2banConf jailConf pathsConf ]; path = [ cfg.package cfg.packageFirewall pkgs.iproute2 ] ++ cfg.extraPackages; unitConfig.Documentation = "man:fail2ban(1)"; serviceConfig = { ExecStart = "${cfg.package}/bin/fail2ban-server -xf start"; ExecStop = "${cfg.package}/bin/fail2ban-server stop"; ExecReload = "${cfg.package}/bin/fail2ban-server reload"; Type = "simple"; Restart = "on-failure"; PIDFile = "/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.pid"; # Capabilities CapabilityBoundingSet = [ "CAP_AUDIT_READ" "CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH" "CAP_NET_ADMIN" "CAP_NET_RAW" ]; # Security NoNewPrivileges = true; # Directory RuntimeDirectory = "fail2ban"; RuntimeDirectoryMode = "0750"; StateDirectory = "fail2ban"; StateDirectoryMode = "0750"; LogsDirectory = "fail2ban"; LogsDirectoryMode = "0750"; # Sandboxing ProtectSystem = "strict"; ProtectHome = true; PrivateTmp = true; PrivateDevices = true; ProtectHostname = true; ProtectKernelTunables = true; ProtectKernelModules = true; ProtectControlGroups = true; }; }; # Add some reasonable default jails. The special "DEFAULT" jail # sets default values for all other jails. services.fail2ban.jails.DEFAULT = '' ${optionalString cfg.bantime-increment.enable '' # Bantime incremental bantime.increment = ${boolToString cfg.bantime-increment.enable} bantime.maxtime = ${cfg.bantime-increment.maxtime} bantime.factor = ${cfg.bantime-increment.factor} bantime.formula = ${cfg.bantime-increment.formula} bantime.multipliers = ${cfg.bantime-increment.multipliers} bantime.overalljails = ${boolToString cfg.bantime-increment.overalljails} ''} # Miscellaneous options ignoreip = 127.0.0.1/8 ${optionalString config.networking.enableIPv6 "::1"} ${concatStringsSep " " cfg.ignoreIP} maxretry = ${toString cfg.maxretry} backend = systemd # Actions banaction = ${cfg.banaction} banaction_allports = ${cfg.banaction-allports} ''; # Block SSH if there are too many failing connection attempts. # Benefits from verbose sshd logging to observe failed login attempts, # so we set that here unless the user overrode it. services.openssh.logLevel = lib.mkDefault "VERBOSE"; services.fail2ban.jails.sshd = mkDefault '' enabled = true port = ${concatMapStringsSep "," (p: toString p) config.services.openssh.ports} ''; }; }