Block outgoing connections on RHEL7/CentOS7 with firewalld?
I didn't find any option in that nice GUI, but it is possible via direct interface
To enable only outgoing port 80:
firewall-cmd --permanent --direct --add-rule ipv4 filter OUTPUT 0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport=80 -j ACCEPT
firewall-cmd --permanent --direct --add-rule ipv4 filter OUTPUT 1 -j DROP
This will add it to permanent rules, not the runtime rules.
You will need to reload permanent rules so they become runtime rules.
firewall-cmd --reload
to display permanent rules
firewall-cmd --permanent --direct --get-all-rules
to display runtime rules
firewall-cmd --direct --get-all-rules
After asking the same question myself, and with some tinkering, I've gathered some nice rules for restricting outgoing traffic to HTTP/HTTPS and DNS queries:
Allow established connections:
# firewall-cmd --permanent --direct --add-rule ipv4 filter OUTPUT 0 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
Allow HTTP:
# firewall-cmd --permanent --direct --add-rule ipv4 filter OUTPUT 1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
Allow HTTPS:
# firewall-cmd --permanent --direct --add-rule ipv4 filter OUTPUT 1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT
Allow for DNS queries:
# firewall-cmd --permanent --direct --add-rule ipv4 filter OUTPUT 1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
# firewall-cmd --permanent --direct --add-rule ipv4 filter OUTPUT 1 -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
Deny everything else:
# firewall-cmd --permanent --direct --add-rule ipv4 filter OUTPUT 2 -j DROP
It might be a good idea to test first by omitting the '--permanent' argument.
I am by no means an expert, but this seems to work fine by me :)