EKS node group remote access disabled

• Query id: ba40ace1-a047-483c-8a8d-bc2d3a67a82d
• Query name: EKS node group remote access disabled
• Platform: Terraform
• Severity: Medium
• Category: Networking and Firewall
• URL: Github

Description

EKS node group remote access is disabled when 'SourceSecurityGroups' is missing
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_eks_node_group" "positive" {
  cluster_name    = aws_eks_cluster.example.name
  node_group_name = "example"
  node_role_arn   = aws_iam_role.example.arn
  subnet_ids      = aws_subnet.example[*].id

  scaling_config {
    desired_size = 1
    max_size     = 1
    min_size     = 1
  }

  remote_access {
    ec2_ssh_key = "my-rsa-key"
  }

  # Ensure that IAM Role permissions are created before and deleted after EKS Node Group handling.
  # Otherwise, EKS will not be able to properly delete EC2 Instances and Elastic Network Interfaces.
  depends_on = [
    aws_iam_role_policy_attachment.example-AmazonEKSWorkerNodePolicy,
    aws_iam_role_policy_attachment.example-AmazonEKS_CNI_Policy,
    aws_iam_role_policy_attachment.example-AmazonEC2ContainerRegistryReadOnly,
  ]
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_eks_node_group" "negative" {
  cluster_name    = aws_eks_cluster.example.name
  node_group_name = "example"
  node_role_arn   = aws_iam_role.example.arn
  subnet_ids      = aws_subnet.example[*].id

  scaling_config {
    desired_size = 1
    max_size     = 1
    min_size     = 1
  }

  remote_access {
    ec2_ssh_key = "my-rsa-key"
    source_security_groups_ids = "sg-213120ASNE"
  }

  # Ensure that IAM Role permissions are created before and deleted after EKS Node Group handling.
  # Otherwise, EKS will not be able to properly delete EC2 Instances and Elastic Network Interfaces.
  depends_on = [
    aws_iam_role_policy_attachment.example-AmazonEKSWorkerNodePolicy,
    aws_iam_role_policy_attachment.example-AmazonEKS_CNI_Policy,
    aws_iam_role_policy_attachment.example-AmazonEC2ContainerRegistryReadOnly,
  ]
}