4.12. Using USBGuard The USBGuard software framework provides system protection against intrusive USB devices by implementing basic whitelisting and blacklisting capabilities based on device attributes. To enforce a user-defined policy, USBGuard uses the Linux kernel USB device authorization feature. The USBGuard framework provides the following components: The daemon component with an inter-process communication (IPC) interface for dynamic interaction and policy enforcement. The command-line interface to interact with a running USBGuard instance. The rule language for writing USB device authorization policies. The C++ API for interacting with the daemon component implemented in a shared library. 4.12.1. Installing USBGuard To install the usbguard package, enter the following command as root : To create the initial rule set, enter the following command as root : Note To customize the USBGuard rule set, edit the /etc/usbguard/rules.conf file. See the usbguard-rules.conf(5) man page for more information. Additionally, see Section 4.12.3, "Using the Rule Language to Create Your Own Policy" for examples. To start the USBGuard daemon, enter the following command as root : To ensure USBGuard starts automatically at system start, use the following command as root : To list all USB devices recognized by USBGuard , enter the following command as root : To authorize a device to interact with the system, use the allow-device option: To deauthorize and remove a device from the system, use the reject-device option. To just deauthorize a device, use the usbguard command with the block-device option: USBGuard uses the block and reject terms with the following meaning: block - do not talk to this device for now reject - ignore this device as if did not exist To see all options of the usbguard command, enter it with the --help directive: 4.12.2. Creating a White List and a Black List The usbguard-daemon.conf file is loaded by the usbguard daemon after it parses its command-line options and is used to configure runtime parameters of the daemon. To override the default configuration file ( /etc/usbguard/usbguard-daemon.conf ), use the -c command-line option. See the usbguard-daemon(8) man page for further details. To create a white list or a black list, edit the usbguard-daemon.conf file and use the following options: USBGuard configuration file RuleFile= <path> The usbguard daemon use this file to load the policy rule set from it and to write new rules received through the IPC interface. IPCAllowedUsers= <username> [<username> ...] A space-delimited list of user names that the daemon will accept IPC connections from. IPCAllowedGroups= <groupname> [<groupname> ...] A space-delimited list of group names that the daemon will accept IPC connections from. IPCAccessControlFiles= <path> Path to a directory holding the IPC access control files. ImplicitPolicyTarget= <target> How to treat devices that do not match any rule in the policy. Accepted values: allow, block, reject. PresentDevicePolicy= <policy> How to treat devices that are already connected when the daemon starts: allow - authorize every present device block - deauthorize every present device reject - remove every present device keep - just sync the internal state and leave it apply-policy - evaluate the ruleset for every present device PresentControllerPolicy= <policy> How to treat USB controllers that are already connected when the daemon starts: allow - authorize every present device block - deauthorize every present device reject - remove every present device keep - just sync the internal state and leave it apply-policy - evaluate the ruleset for every present device Example 4.5. USBGuard configuration The following configuration file orders the usbguard daemon to load rules from the /etc/usbguard/rules.conf file and it allows only users from the usbguard group to use the IPC interface: To specify the IPC Access Control List (ACL), use the usbguard add-user or usbguard remove-user commands. See the usbguard(1) for more details. In this example, to allow users from the usbguard group to modify USB device authorization state, list USB devices, listen to exception events, and list USB authorization policy, enter the following command as root : Important The daemon provides the USBGuard public IPC interface. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the access to this interface is by default limited to the root user only. Consider setting either the IPCAccessControlFiles option (recommended) or the IPCAllowedUsers and IPCAllowedGroups options to limit access to the IPC interface. Do not leave the ACL unconfigured as this exposes the IPC interface to all local users and it allows them to manipulate the authorization state of USB devices and modify the USBGuard policy. For more information, see the IPC Access Control section in the usbguard-daemon.conf(5) man page. 4.12.3. Using the Rule Language to Create Your Own Policy The usbguard daemon decides whether to authorize a USB device based on a policy defined by a set of rules. When a USB device is inserted into the system, the daemon scans the existing rules sequentially and when a matching rule is found, it either authorizes (allows), deauthorizes (blocks) or removes (rejects) the device, based on the rule target. If no matching rule is found, the decision is based on an implicit default target. This implicit default is to block the device until a decision is made by the user. The rule language grammar is the following: For more details about the rule language such as targets, device specification, or device attributes, see the usbguard-rules.conf(5) man page. Example 4.6. USBguard example policies Allow USB mass storage devices and block everything else This policy blocks any device that is not just a mass storage device. Devices with a hidden keyboard interface in a USB flash disk are blocked. Only devices with a single mass storage interface are allowed to interact with the operating system. The policy consists of a single rule: The blocking is implicit because there is no block rule. Implicit blocking is useful to desktop users because a desktop applet listening to USBGuard events can ask the user for a decision if an implicit target was selected for a device. Allow a specific Yubikey device to be connected through a specific port Reject everything else on that port. Reject devices with suspicious combination of interfaces A USB flash disk which implements a keyboard or a network interface is very suspicious. The following set of rules forms a policy which allows USB flash disks and explicitly rejects devices with an additional and suspicious interface. Note Blacklisting is the wrong approach and you should not just blacklist a set of devices and allow the rest. The policy above assumes that blocking is the implicit default. Rejecting a set of devices considered as "bad" is a good approach how to limit the exposure of the system to such devices as much as possible. Allow a keyboard-only USB device The following rule allows a keyboard-only USB device only if there is not a USB device with a keyboard interface already allowed. After an initial policy generation using the usbguard generate-policy command, edit the /etc/usbguard/rules.conf to customize the USBGuard policy rules. To install the updated policy and make your changes effective, use the following commands: 4.12.4. Additional Resources For additional information on USBGuard , see the following documentation: usbguard(1) man page usbguard-rules.conf(5) man page usbguard-daemon(8) man page usbguard-daemon.conf(5) man page The USBGuard homepage

Commands:
~]# yum install usbguard
~]# usbguard generate-policy > /etc/usbguard/rules.conf
~]# systemctl start usbguard.service ~]# systemctl status usbguard ● usbguard.service - USBGuard daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/usbguard.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Tue 2017-06-06 13:29:31 CEST; 9s ago Docs: man:usbguard-daemon(8) Main PID: 4984 (usbguard-daemon) CGroup: /system.slice/usbguard.service └─4984 /usr/sbin/usbguard-daemon -k -c /etc/usbguard/usbguard-daem
~]# systemctl enable usbguard.service Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/basic.target.wants/usbguard.service to /usr/lib/systemd/system/usbguard.service.
~]# usbguard list-devices 1: allow id 1d6b:0002 serial "0000:00:06.7" name "EHCI Host Controller" hash "JDOb0BiktYs2ct3mSQKopnOOV2h9MGYADwhT+oUtF2s=" parent-hash "4PHGcaDKWtPjKDwYpIRG722cB9SlGz9l9Iea93+Gt9c=" via-port "usb1" with-interface 09:00:00 6: block id 1b1c:1ab1 serial "000024937962" name "Voyager" hash "CrXgiaWIf2bZAU+5WkzOE7y0rdSO82XMzubn7HDb95Q=" parent-hash "JDOb0BiktYs2ct3mSQKopnOOV2h9MGYADwhT+oUtF2s=" via-port "1-3" with-interface 08:06:50
~]# usbguard allow-device 6
~]# usbguard block-device 6
~]USD usbguard --help
RuleFile=/etc/usbguard/rules.conf IPCAccessControlFiles=/etc/usbguard/IPCAccessControl.d/
~]# usbguard add-user -g usbguard --devices=modify,list,listen --policy=list --exceptions=listen
rule ::= target device_id device_attributes conditions. target ::= "allow" | "block" | "reject". device_id ::= "*:*" | vendor_id ":*" | vendor_id ":" product_id. device_attributes ::= device_attributes | attribute. device_attributes ::= . conditions ::= conditions | condition. conditions ::= .
allow with-interface equals { 08:*:* }
allow 1050:0011 name "Yubico Yubikey II" serial "0001234567" via-port "1-2" hash "044b5e168d40ee0245478416caf3d998" reject via-port "1-2"
allow with-interface equals { 08:*:* } reject with-interface all-of { 08:*:* 03:00:* } reject with-interface all-of { 08:*:* 03:01:* } reject with-interface all-of { 08:*:* e0:*:* } reject with-interface all-of { 08:*:* 02:*:* }
allow with-interface one-of { 03:00:01 03:01:01 } if !allowed-matches(with-interface one-of { 03:00:01 03:01:01 })
~]USD usbguard generate-policy > rules.conf ~]USD vim rules.conf
~]# install -m 0600 -o root -g root rules.conf /etc/usbguard/rules.conf