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AWS_SAM

Bellow are listed queries related with CloudFormation AWS_SAM:

Query Severity Category Description Help
Serverless Function Environment Variables Not Encrypted
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High Encryption AWS Serverless Function should encrypt environment variables Documentation
Serverless API Without Content Encoding
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Medium Encryption AWS Serverless API should enable Content Encoding through the attribute 'MinimumCompressionSize'. This value should be greater than -1 and smaller than 10485760 Documentation
Serverless Function Without Tags
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Medium Insecure Configurations AWS Serverless Function must have associated tags Documentation
Serverless Function Without Unique IAM Role
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Medium Insecure Configurations AWS Serverless Function should not share IAM Role to ensure it will have the minimum privileges needed to perform the required tasks Documentation
Serverless API Endpoint Config Not Private
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Medium Networking and Firewall AWS Serverless API should set API Endpoint Config type to 'PRIVATE'. This way, it's not exposed to the public internet Documentation
Serverless API X-Ray Tracing Disabled
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Medium Observability AWS Serverless API should have X-Ray Tracing enabled Documentation
Serverless API Access Logging Setting Undefined
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Medium Observability AWS Serverless API/AWS Serverless HTTP API should have Access Logging Setting(s) defined Documentation
Serverless API Cache Cluster Disabled
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Low Insecure Configurations AWS Serverless API should have cache clustering enabled Documentation
Serverless Function Without Dead Letter Queue
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Low Insecure Configurations AWS Serverless Function should be configured for a Dead Letter Queue(DLQ) Documentation
Serverless Function Without X-Ray Tracing
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Low Observability AWS Serverless Function should have Tracing enabled. For this, property 'Tracing' should have the value 'Active' Documentation
### AWS
Bellow are listed queries related with CloudFormation AWS:
Query Severity Category Description Help
ECS Service Admin Role Is Present
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High Access Control ECS Services must not have Admin roles, which means the attribute 'role' must not be an admin role Documentation
S3 Bucket ACL Allows Read to All Users
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High Access Control S3 Buckets sould not be readable and writable to all users Documentation
IAM Policies With Full Privileges
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High Access Control IAM policies shouldn't allow full administrative privileges Documentation
Lambda Functions With Full Privileges
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High Access Control AWS Lambda Functions should not have roles with policies granting full administrative privileges. Documentation
S3 Bucket Access to Any Principal
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High Access Control The S3 Bucket should not have the (accessPublicBlock empty or accessPublicBlock.ignorePublicAcls = false or accessPublicBlock.restrictPublicBuckets = false ) and ( policy.Statement contain [Effect='Allow' and (Principal='' or Principal.AWS='')]) Documentation
S3 Bucket Allows List Action From All Principals
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High Access Control S3 Buckets must not allow List Actions From All Principals, as to prevent leaking private information to the entire internet or allow unauthorized data tampering / deletion. This means the 'Effect' must not be 'Allow' when the 'Action' is List, for all Principals. Documentation
S3 Bucket ACL Allows Read Or Write to All Users
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High Access Control S3 Buckets sould not be readable and writable to all users Documentation
S3 Bucket Allows Put Action From All Principals
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High Access Control S3 Buckets must not allow Put Actions From All Principals, as to prevent leaking private information to the entire internet or allow unauthorized data tampering / deletion. This means the 'Effect' must not be 'Allow' when the 'Action' is Put, for all Principals. Documentation
S3 Bucket ACL Allows Read to Any Authenticated User
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High Access Control S3 Buckets sould not be readable and writable to all users Documentation
S3 Bucket Allows Restore Actions From All Principals
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High Access Control S3 Buckets must not allow Restore Actions From All Principals, as to prevent leaking private information to the entire internet or allow unauthorized data tampering / deletion. This means the 'Effect' must not be 'Allow' when the 'Action' is Restore, for all Principals. Documentation
S3 Bucket Allows Get Action From All Principals
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High Access Control S3 Buckets must not allow Get Actions From All Principals, as to prevent leaking private information to the entire internet or allow unauthorized data tampering / deletion. This means the 'Effect' must not be 'Allow' when the 'Action' is Get, for all Principals. Documentation
S3 Bucket With All Permissions
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High Access Control S3 Buckets must not have all permissions, as to prevent leaking private information to the entire internet or allow unauthorized data tampering / deletion. This means the 'Effect' must not be 'Allow' when the 'Action' is '*', for all Principals. Documentation
S3 Bucket Allows Delete Action From All Principals
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High Access Control S3 Buckets must not allow Delete Actions From All Principals, as to prevent leaking private information to the entire internet or allow unauthorized data tampering / deletion. This means the 'Effect' must not be 'Allow' when the 'Action' is Delete, for all Principals. Documentation
ELB Without Secure Protocol
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High Encryption Check if the ELB is setup with SSL or HTTPS for secure communication Documentation
CloudTrail Log Files Not Encrypted
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High Encryption Logs delivered by CloudTrail should be encrypted using KMS Documentation
Kinesis SSE Not Configured
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High Encryption AWS Kinesis Stream should have SSE (Server Side Encryption) defined Documentation
API Gateway Cache Encrypted Disabled
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High Encryption 'API::Gateway::Deployment' should have 'CacheDataEncrypted' enabled when 'CachingEnabled' is set to true Documentation
Memcached Disabled
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High Encryption Check if the Memcached is disabled on the ElastiCache Documentation
ElastiCache With Disabled Transit Encryption
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High Encryption Ensure AWS ElastiCache Redis clusters have encryption for data at transit enabled Documentation
Connection Between CloudFront Origin Not Encrypted
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High Encryption Checks if the connection between the CloudFront and the origin server is encrypted Documentation
CMK Unencrypted Storage
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High Encryption Ensure that storage is encrypted by KMS on instances that, based on their name, might host a database. Documentation
S3 Bucket SSE Disabled
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High Encryption If algorithm is AES256 then the master key is null, empty or undefined, otherwise the master key is required Documentation
S3 Bucket Without SSL In Write Actions
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High Encryption S3 Buckets should enforce encryption of data transfers using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Documentation
SageMaker Data Encryption Disabled
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High Encryption Amazon SageMaker's Notebook Instance must have its Data Encryption enabled, which means the attribute 'KmsKeyId' must be defined not empty or null. Documentation
ELB Using Weak Ciphers
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High Encryption ELB Predefined or Custom Security Policies must not use insecure protocols, to reduce the risk of the SSL connection between the client and the load balancer being exploited. That means the ELB Listeners must not have Policies that posses Ciphers that coincide with any of a predefined list of weak ciphers. Documentation
User Data Contains Encoded Private Key
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High Encryption User Data Base64 contains an encoded RSA Private Key Documentation
EFS Without KMS
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High Encryption Amazon Elastic Filesystem should have filesystem encryption enabled using KMS CMK customer-managed keys instead of AWS managed-keys Documentation
DynamoDB With Aws Owned CMK
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High Encryption AWS DynamoDb should be encrypted using AWS Managed CMK, instead of AWS-owned CMK. To verify this, SSEEnabled must be verified if false for AWS-owned CMK or true for AWS-Managed CMK. Default value is false. Documentation
Secure Ciphers Disabled
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High Encryption Check if secure ciphers aren't used in CloudFront Documentation
ELB Using Insecure Protocols
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High Encryption ELB Predefined or Custom Security Policies must not use insecure protocols, to reduce the risk of the SSL connection between the client and the load balancer being exploited. That means the ELB Listeners must not have Policies that posses Protocols that coincide with any of a predefined list of insecure protocols. Documentation
ECS Task Definition Container With Plaintext Password
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High Encryption It's not recommended to use plaintext environment variables for sensitive information, such as credential data. Documentation
EFS Not Encrypted
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High Encryption Amazon Elastic Filesystem should have filesystem encryption enabled Documentation
S3 Bucket Without Server-side-encryption
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High Encryption S3 Buckets should have server-side encryption at rest enabled to protect sensitive data Documentation
ECS Cluster Not Encrypted At Rest
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High Encryption Ensure that AWS ECS clusters are encrypted. Data encryption at rest, prevents unauthorized users from accessing sensitive data on your AWS ECS clusters and associated cache storage systems. Documentation
ElastiCache With Disabled at Rest Encryption
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High Encryption Ensure AWS ElastiCache Redis clusters have encryption for data at rest enabled Documentation
RDS Storage Not Encrypted
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High Encryption AWS RDS DB Instance should be encrypted Documentation
CloudFormation Specifying Credentials Not Safe
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High Encryption Specifying credentials in the template itself is probably not safe to do. Documentation
Viewer Protocol Policy Allows HTTP
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High Encryption Ensure that the Viewer Protocol is only HTTPS Compliant Documentation
Redshift Cluster Without KMS CMK
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High Encryption AWS Redshift Cluster should have KMS CMK defined Documentation
MSK Cluster Encryption Disabled
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High Encryption Ensure MSK Cluster encryption in rest and transit is enabled. Documentation
User Data Shell Script Is Encoded
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High Encryption User Data Shell Script must be encoded Documentation
IAM Database Auth Not Enabled
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High Encryption IAM Database Auth Enabled must be configured to true Documentation
Redshift Not Encrypted
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High Encryption AWS Redshift Cluster should be encrypted Documentation
S3 Bucket with Unsecured CORS Rule
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High Insecure Configurations If the CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) rule is defined in an S3 bucket, it should be secure Documentation
Redshift Publicly Accessible
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High Insecure Configurations AWS Redshift Clusters must not be publicly accessible, which means the attribute 'PubliclyAccessible' must be set to false Documentation
Root Account Has Active Access Keys
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High Insecure Configurations Check if the root user has any access keys associated to it. Documentation
CloudFront Without Minimum Protocol TLS 1.2
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High Insecure Configurations CloudFront Minimum Protocol version should be at least TLS 1.2 Documentation
Batch Job Definition With Privileged Container Properties
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High Insecure Configurations Batch Job Definition should not have Privileged Container Properties Documentation
ECS Task Definition Network Mode Not Recommended
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High Insecure Configurations Network_Mode should be 'awsvpc' in ecs_task_definition. AWS VPCs provides the controls to facilitate a formal process for approving and testing all network connections and changes to the firewall and router configurations Documentation
KMS Key With Vulnerable Policy
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High Insecure Configurations Checks if the policy is vulnerable and needs updating Documentation
DB Instance Publicly Accessible
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High Insecure Configurations RDS must not be defined with public interface, which means the attribute 'PubliclyAccessible' must be set to false. Documentation
API Gateway Without Security Policy
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High Insecure Configurations API Gateway should have a Security Policy defined and use TLS 1.2. Documentation
S3 Static Website Host Enabled
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High Insecure Configurations It's dangerous disabling a block public access settings in bucket or writing a bucket policy that grants public read access Documentation
Vulnerable Default SSL Certificate
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High Insecure Defaults CloudFront web distributions should use custom (and not default) SSL certificates. Custom SSL certificates allow only defined users to access content by using an alternate domain name instead of the default one. Documentation
Permissive Web ACL Default Action
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High Insecure Defaults WebAcl DefaultAction should not be ALLOW Documentation
Remote Desktop Port Open
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High Networking and Firewall The Remote Desktop port is open in a Security Group Documentation
EC2 Network ACL Overlapping Ports
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High Networking and Firewall NetworkACL Entries are reusing or overlapping ports which may create ineffective rules Documentation
Default Security Groups With Unrestricted Traffic
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High Networking and Firewall Security Groups set as default must be denied traffic. Documentation
Security Groups Allows Unrestricted Outbound Traffic
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High Networking and Firewall No security group should allow unrestricted egress access Documentation
HTTP Port Open
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High Networking and Firewall The HTTP port is open in a Security Group Documentation
DB Security Group Open To Large Scope
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High Networking and Firewall The IP address in a DB Security Group must not have more than 256 hosts. Documentation
Security Groups With Meta IP
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High Networking and Firewall Security Groups allows 0.0.0.0/0 for all ports and protocols. Documentation
EC2 Public Instance Exposed Through Subnet
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High Networking and Firewall EC2 instances with public IP addresses shouldn't allow for unrestricted traffic to their subnets Documentation
Security Groups With Exposed Admin Ports
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High Networking and Firewall Security Groups should not have ports open in (20, 21, 22, 23, 115, 137, 138, 139, 2049, 3389) Documentation
ALB Listening on HTTP
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High Networking and Firewall All Application Load Balancers (ALB) should block connection requests over HTTP Documentation
Fully Open Ingress
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High Networking and Firewall ECS Service's security group should not allow unrestricted access to all ports from all IPv4 addresses Documentation
DB Security Group with Public Scope
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High Networking and Firewall The IP address in a DB Security Group must not be '0.0.0.0/0' (IPv4) or '::/0' (IPv6). Documentation
RDS Associated with Public Subnet
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High Networking and Firewall RDS should not run in public subnet Documentation
SageMaker Notebook Not Placed In VPC
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High Networking and Firewall SageMaker Notebook must be placed in a VPC Documentation
ELB Sensitive Port Is Exposed To Entire Network
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High Networking and Firewall The load balancer of the application with a sensitive port connection is exposed to the entire internet. Documentation
Security Group Unrestricted Access To RDP
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High Networking and Firewall Security Groups does not allow 0.0.0.0/0 for rdp (port:3389) Documentation
Unknown Port Exposed To Internet
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High Networking and Firewall AWS Security Group should not have an unknown port exposed to the entire Internet Documentation
EC2 Sensitive Port Is Publicly Exposed
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High Networking and Firewall The EC2 instance has a sensitive port connection exposed to the entire network Documentation
EKS node group remote access
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High Networking and Firewall Ensure Amazon EKS Node group has implict SSH access Documentation
Security Group With Unrestricted Access To SSH
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High Networking and Firewall Security Groups allows all traffic for SSH (port:22) Documentation
Route53 Record Undefined
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High Networking and Firewall Route53 HostedZone must have the Record Set defined. Documentation
CMK Rotation Disabled
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High Observability Customer Master Keys (CMK) must have rotation enabled, which means the attribute 'EnableKeyRotation' must be set to 'true' when the key is enabled. Documentation
CloudTrail Logging Disabled
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High Observability Checks if logging is enabled for CloudTrail. Documentation
Configuration Aggregator to All Regions Disabled
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High Observability AWS Config Configuration Aggregator All Regions must be set to True Documentation
S3 Bucket CloudTrail Logging Disabled
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High Observability Server Access Logging must be enabled on S3 Buckets so that all changes are logged and trackable when the Service used is CloudTrail Documentation
API Gateway Method Does Not Contains An API Key
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Medium Access Control An API Key should be required on a method request. Documentation
Cross-Account IAM Assume Role Policy Without ExternalId or MFA
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Medium Access Control Cross-Account IAM Assume Role Policy should require external ID or MFA to protect cross-account access Documentation
IoT Policy Allows Wildcard Resource
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Medium Access Control IoT Policy should not allow Resource to be set as * Documentation
IoT Policy Allows Action as Wildcard
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Medium Access Control IoT Policy should not allow Action to be set as * Documentation
SQS Policy With Public Access
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Medium Access Control Checks for dangerous permissions in Action statements in an SQS Queue Policy. This is deemed a potential security risk as it would allow various attacks to the queue Documentation
Empty Roles For ECS Cluster Task Definitions
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Medium Access Control Check if any ECS cluster has not defined proper roles for services' task definitions. Documentation
Neptune Cluster With IAM Database Authentication Disabled
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Medium Access Control Neptune Cluster should have IAM Database Authentication enabled Documentation
SNS Topic Publicity Has Allow and NotAction Simultaneously
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Medium Access Control SNS topic Publicity Should not have Allow and NotAction at the same time, if it has Allow it should have Action Documentation
EC2 Network ACL Ineffective Denied Traffic
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Medium Access Control Ineffective deny rules. A deny rule should be applied to all IP addresses. Documentation
SQS Queue Policy Allows NotAction
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Medium Access Control AWS SQS Queue Policy should not allow NotAction since the actions specified in this element are the only actions in that are limited Documentation
IAM Access Analyzer Undefined
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Medium Access Control IAM Access Analyzer should be defined to identify unintentional access Documentation
ECR Repository Is Publicly Accessible
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Medium Access Control Amazon ECR image repositories shouldn't have public access Documentation
API Gateway Without Configured Authorizer
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Medium Access Control API Gateway REST API should have an API Gateway Authorizer Documentation
KMS Allows Wildcard Principal
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Medium Access Control KMS Should not allow Principal parameter to be set as * Documentation
Public Lambda via API Gateway
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Medium Access Control Allowing to run lambda function using public API Gateway Documentation
Lambda Permission Principal Is Wildcard
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Medium Access Control Lambda Permission Principal should not be wildcard. Documentation
EC2 Instance Has No IAM Role
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Medium Access Control Check if an EC2 instance refers to an IAM profile, which represents an IAM Role. Documentation
Elasticsearch Without IAM Authentication
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Medium Access Control AWS Elasticsearch should ensure IAM Authentication Documentation
SQS Queue Policy Allows NotPrincipal
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Medium Access Control Checks if an SQS Queue policy has an Allow and a NotPrincipal. AWS strongly recommends against using NotPrincipal in the same policy statement as "Effect": "Allow". Documentation
IAM Policy On User
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Medium Access Control IAM policies should be applied to groups and not to users Documentation
ECS Service Without Running Tasks
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Medium Availability ECS Service should have at least 1 task running Documentation
Auto Scaling Group With No Associated ELB
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Medium Availability AWS Auto Scaling Groups must have associated ELBs to ensure high availability and improve application performance. This means the attribute 'LoadBalancerNames' must be defined and not empty. Documentation
ElastiCache Nodes Not Created Across Multi AZ
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Medium Availability Check if ElastiCache nodes are not being created across multi AZ Documentation
EBS Volume Not Attached To Instances
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Medium Availability EBS Volumes that are unattached to instances may contain sensitive data Documentation
CMK Is Unusable
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Medium Availability AWS Key Management Service (KMS) must only possess usable Customer Master Keys (CMK), which means the CMKs must have the attribute 'Enabled' set to true and the attribute 'PendingWindowInDays' must be undefined. Documentation
Low RDS Backup Retention Period
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Medium Backup AWS RDS backup retention policy should be at least 7 days Documentation
Stack Retention Disabled
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Medium Backup Make sure that retain_stack is enabled to keep the Stack and it's associated resources during resource destruction Documentation
RDS Multi-AZ Deployment Disabled
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Medium Backup AWS RDS Instance should have a multi-az deployment Documentation
RDS With Backup Disabled
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Medium Backup Make sure the AWS RDS configuration has automatic backup configured. If the retention period is equal to 0 there is no backup Documentation
IAM Password Without Minimum Length
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Medium Best Practices IAM user resource Login Profile Password should have at least 14 characters Documentation
Cognito UserPool Without MFA
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Medium Best Practices AWS Cognito UserPool should have MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) defined to users Documentation
IAM Password Without Uppercase Letter
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Medium Best Practices IAM user resource Login Profile Password should have at least one uppercase letter Documentation
IAM Password Without Lowercase Letter
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Medium Best Practices IAM user resource Login Profile Password should have lowercase letter Documentation
Automatic Minor Upgrades Disabled
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Medium Best Practices AWS RDS should have automatic minor upgrades enabled, which means the attribute 'AutoMinorVersionUpgrade' must be set to true. Documentation
High Access Key Rotation Period
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Medium Best Practices Check if there is a rule that enforces access keys to be rotated within 90 days. Documentation
IAM Password Without Number
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Medium Best Practices IAM user resource Login Profile Password should have at least one number Documentation
IAM Password Without Symbol
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Medium Best Practices IAM user resource Login Profile Password should have at least one symbol Documentation
ECS No Load Balancer Attached
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Medium Best Practices Amazon ECS service should be configured to use Load Balancing to distribute traffic evenly across the tasks, which means there must exist at least one LoadBalancer. Documentation
IAM Managed Policy Applied to a User
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Medium Best Practices Make sure that any managed IAM policies are implemented in a group and not in a user. Documentation
IAM User Without Password Reset
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Medium Best Practices IAM User Login Profile should exist and have PasswordResetRequired property set to true Documentation
Neptune Database Cluster Encryption Disabled
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Medium Encryption Neptune database cluster storage should have encryption enabled Documentation
Workspace Without Encryption
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Medium Encryption Workspaces should have encryption enabled Documentation
IAM Group Inline Policies
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Medium Encryption IAM Groups should not use inline policies and instead use managed policies. If a group is deleted, the inline policy is also deleted Documentation
EBS Volume Encryption Disabled
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Medium Encryption EBS volumes should be encrypted Documentation
Alexa Skill Plaintext Client Secret Exposed
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Medium Encryption Alexa skills' client secrets should not be defined as a plaintext string. It should either use 'AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store' or 'AWS Secrets Manager' to retrieve sensitive information Documentation
CodeBuild Not Encrypted
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Medium Encryption CodeBuild Should have EncryptionKey defined Documentation
SageMaker EndPoint Config Should Specify KmsKeyId Attribute
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Medium Encryption KmsKeyId attribute should be defined Documentation
ElasticSearch Not Encrypted At Rest
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Medium Encryption Check if ElasticSearch encryption is disabled at Rest Documentation
API Gateway Without Content Encoding
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Medium Encryption Enable Content Encoding through the attribute 'MinimumCompressionSize'. This value should be greater than -1 and smaller than 10485760. Documentation
ElasticSearch Encryption With KMS Disabled
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Medium Encryption Check if any ElasticSearch domain isn't encrypted with KMS. Documentation
Unscanned ECR Image
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Medium Encryption Checks if the ECR Image has been scanned Documentation
RDS Storage Encryption Disabled
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Medium Encryption RDS DBCluster should have storage encrypted set to true Documentation
Config Rule For Encrypted Volumes Disabled
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Medium Encryption Check if AWS config rules do not identify Encrypted Volumes as a source. Documentation
KMS Key Rotation Disabled
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Medium Encryption EnableKeyRotation should not be false or undefined Documentation
EMR Security Configuration Encryption Disabled
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Medium Encryption EMR SecurityConfiguration should enable and properly configure encryption at rest and in transit. Documentation
AmazonMQ Broker Encryption Disabled
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Medium Encryption AmazonMQ Broker should have Encryption Options defined Documentation
Instance With No VPC
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Medium Insecure Configurations EC2 Instances should be configured under a VPC network. AWS VPCs provide the controls to facilitate a formal process for approving and testing all network connections and changes to the firewall and router configurations. Documentation
MQ Broker Is Publicly Accessible
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Medium Insecure Configurations Check if any MQ Broker is not publicly accessible Documentation
IAM User Has Too Many Access Keys
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Medium Insecure Configurations Any IAM User should not have more than one access key since it increases the risk of unauthorized access and compromise credentials Documentation
SageMaker Enabling Internet Access
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Medium Insecure Configurations SageMaker must have disabled internet access and root access for Creating Notebook Instances. Documentation
ECR Image Tag Not Immutable
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Medium Insecure Configurations ECR should have an image tag be immutable Documentation
IAM User LoginProfile Password Is In Plaintext
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Medium Insecure Configurations IAM User LoginProfile Password must not be a plaintext string Documentation
EC2 Instance Has Public IP
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Medium Insecure Configurations EC2 Subnet should not have MapPublicIpOnLaunch set to true Documentation
EMR Cluster Without Security Configuration
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Medium Insecure Configurations EMR Cluster should have security configuration defined. Documentation
Inline Policies Are Attached To ECS Service
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Medium Insecure Configurations Check if any ECS service has inline policies attached, which are embedded directly into an entity (user, group,...), instead of the equivalent recommended managed policies. Documentation
API Gateway Without SSL Certificate
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Medium Insecure Configurations SSL Client Certificate should be enabled Documentation
Lambda Function Without Tags
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Medium Insecure Configurations AWS Lambda Functions must have associated tags. Documentation
Lambda Functions Without Unique IAM Roles
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Medium Insecure Configurations AWS Lambda Functions should not share IAM roles to ensure they will have the minimum privileges needed to perform the required tasks Documentation
GitHub Repository Set To Public
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Medium Insecure Configurations Repositories must be set to private, which means the attribute 'visibility' must be set to 'private' and/or the attribute 'private' must be set to true (the attribute 'visibility' overrides 'private') Documentation
API Gateway With Open Access
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Medium Insecure Configurations API Gateway Method should restrict an authorization type, except for the HTTP OPTIONS method. Documentation
S3 Bucket Should Have Bucket Policy
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Medium Insecure Defaults Checks if S3 Bucket has the same name as a Bucket Policy, if it has, S3 Bucket has a Bucket Policy associated Documentation
RouterTable with Default Routing
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Medium Insecure Defaults NAT gateways are recommended, and not the default route which permits all traffic, in Route Tables. Documentation
GameLift Fleet EC2 InboundPermissions With Port Range
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Medium Networking and Firewall AWS GameLift Fleet EC2InboundPermissions should have a single port Documentation
Security Group Ingress With All Protocols
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Medium Networking and Firewall AWS Security Group Ingress should not specify all protocols to prevent allow traffic on all ports Documentation
Unrestricted Security Group Ingress
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Medium Networking and Firewall AWS Security Group Ingress CIDR should not be open to the world Documentation
Security Group Egress With Port Range
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Medium Networking and Firewall AWS Security Group Egress should have a single port Documentation
Security Group Ingress With Port Range
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Medium Networking and Firewall AWS Security Group Ingress should have a single port Documentation
ELB With Security Group Without Outbound Rules
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Medium Networking and Firewall An AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) shouldn´t have security groups without outbound rules Documentation
Security Group Egress With All Protocols
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Medium Networking and Firewall AWS Security Group Egress should not specify all protocols to prevent allow traffic on all ports Documentation
API Gateway Endpoint Config is Not Private
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Medium Networking and Firewall The API Endpoint type in API Gateway should be set to PRIVATE so it's not exposed to the public internet Documentation
ALB Is Not Integrated With WAF
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Medium Networking and Firewall All Application Load Balancers (ALB) must be protected with Web Application Firewall (WAF) service Documentation
VPC Without Network Firewall
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Medium Networking and Firewall VPC should have a Network Firewall associated Documentation
Security Groups Without VPC Attached
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Medium Networking and Firewall Security Groups must have a VPC. Documentation
ELB With Security Group Without Inbound Rules
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Medium Networking and Firewall An AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) shouldn´t have security groups without outbound rules Documentation
Security Group Egress CIDR Open To World
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Medium Networking and Firewall AWS Security Group Egress CIDR should not be open to the world Documentation
TCP/UDP Protocol Network ACL Entry Allows All Ports
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Medium Networking and Firewall TCP/UDP protocol AWS Network ACL Entry should not allow all ports Documentation
API Gateway without WAF
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Medium Networking and Firewall API Gateway should have WAF (Web Application Firewall) enabled Documentation
EC2 Permissive Network ACL Protocols
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Medium Networking and Firewall To avoid opening all ports for Allow rules, EC2 NetworkACL Entry Protocol should be either 6 (for TCP), 17 (for UDP), 1 (for ICMP), or 58 (for ICMPv6, which must include an IPv6 CIDR block, ICMP type, and code). Documentation
S3 Bucket Without Versioning
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Medium Observability S3 bucket should have versioning enabled Documentation
CloudFront Logging Disabled
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Medium Observability Make sure AWS CloudFront distribution has access log enabled Documentation
Redshift Cluster Logging Disabled
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Medium Observability Make sure Logging is enabled for Redshift Cluster Documentation
ELBv2 ALB Access Log Disabled
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Medium Observability ELBv2 ALBs should have access log enabled to capture detailed information about requests sent to your load balancer. Documentation
CloudTrail SNS Topic Name Undefined
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Medium Observability Check if SNS topic name is set for CloudTrail Documentation
CloudTrail Not Integrated With CloudWatch
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Medium Observability CloudTrail should be integrated with CloudWatch Documentation
ELB Access Log Disabled
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Medium Observability ELB should have access log enabled Documentation
MQ Broker Logging Disabled
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Medium Observability Check if MQ Brokers don't have logging enabled in any of the two options possible (audit and general). Documentation
CloudWatch Logging Disabled
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Medium Observability Check if CloudWatch logging is disabled for Route53 hosted zones Documentation
MSK Cluster Logging Disabled
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Medium Observability Ensure MSK Cluster Logging is enabled Documentation
CloudTrail Multi Region Disabled
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Medium Observability AWS CloudTrail should have IsMultiRegionTrail set to true Documentation
CloudWatch Metrics Disabled
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Medium Observability Checks if CloudWatch Metrics is Enabled Documentation
GuardDuty Detector Disabled
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Medium Observability Make sure that Amazon GuardDuty is Enabled. Documentation
API Gateway V2 Stage Access Logging Settings Not Defined
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Medium Observability API Gateway V2 Stage should have Access Logging Settings defined. Documentation
API Gateway X-Ray Disabled
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Medium Observability X-Ray Tracing is not enabled Documentation
ElasticSearch Without Slow Logs
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Medium Observability Ensure that AWS Elasticsearch enables support for slow logs Documentation
API Gateway Deployment Without Access Log Setting
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Medium Observability API Gateway Deployment should have access log setting defined when connected to an API Gateway Stage. Documentation
Stack Notifications Disabled
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Medium Observability Enable AWS CloudFormation Stack Notifications Documentation
DocDB Cluster Master Password In Plaintext
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Medium Secret Management DocDB DB Cluster master user password must not be in a plain text string or referenced in a parameter as a default value. Documentation
DMS Endpoint MongoDB Settings Password Exposed
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Medium Secret Management DMS Endpoint MongoDbSettings Password must not be a plaintext string or a Ref to a Parameter with a Default value. Documentation
Directory Service Microsoft AD Password Set to Plaintext or Default Ref
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Medium Secret Management Directory Service Microsoft AD password must not be a plaintext string or a Ref to a Parameter with a Default value. Documentation
Amplify App Basic Auth Config Password Exposed
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Medium Secret Management Amplify App BasicAuthConfig Password must not be a plaintext string or a Ref to a Parameter with a Default value. Documentation
RefreshToken Is Exposed
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Medium Secret Management Alexa ASK Skill AuthenticationConfiguration RefreshToken should not be a plaintext string Documentation
Directory Service Simple AD Password Exposed
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Medium Secret Management DirectoryService SimpleAD password must not be a plaintext string or a Ref to a Parameter with a Default value. Documentation
Amplify App OAuth Token Exposed
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Medium Secret Management Amplify App OAuth Token must not be a plaintext string or a Ref to a Parameter with a Default value. Documentation
DMS Endpoint Password Exposed
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Medium Secret Management DMS Endpoint password must not be a plaintext string or a Ref to a Parameter with a Default value. Documentation
Secrets Manager Should Specify KmsKeyId
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Medium Secret Management Secrets Manager Secret should explicitly specify KmsKeyId, this will allow the secret to be shared cross-account Documentation
Amplify Branch Basic Auth Config Password Exposed
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Medium Secret Management Amplify Branch BasicAuthConfig Password must not be a plaintext string or a Ref to a Parameter with a Default value. Documentation
Hardcoded AWS Access Key In Lambda
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Medium Secret Management Lambda hardcoded AWS access/secret keys Documentation
EBS Volume Without KmsKeyId
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Medium Secret Management EBS Volume should specify a KmsKeyId value Documentation
Amplify App Access Token Exposed
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Medium Secret Management Amplify App Access Token must not be in a plain text string or referenced in a parameter as a default value. Documentation
SNS Topic Without KmsMasterKeyId
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Medium Secret Management KmsMasterKeyId attribute should not be undefined Documentation
SQS with SSE disabled
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Medium Secret Management AWS SQS Queue should have a KMS Master Key defined Documentation
IAM Policy Grants 'AssumeRole' Permission Across All Services
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Low Access Control Check if any IAM Policy grants 'AssumeRole' permission across all services. Documentation
IAM Group Without Users
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Low Access Control IAM Group should have at least one user associated Documentation
IAM Policy Grants Full Permissions
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Low Access Control Check if an IAM policy is granting full permissions to resources from the get-go, instead of granting permissions gradually as necessary. Documentation
EC2 Instance Using Default Security Group
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Low Access Control EC2 instances should not use default security group(s) Documentation
Support Has No Role Associated
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Low Access Control Check if any AWS Support policy does not have any role and users and group associated, which means that is not being managed. Documentation
IAM User With No Group
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Low Access Control A IAM user should belong to a group Documentation
IAM Role Allows All Principals To Assume
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Low Access Control IAM role allows all services or principals to assume it Documentation
VPC Attached With Too Many Gateways
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Low Availability The number of gateways approaches or goes beyond the limit in a particular VPC Documentation
RDS With Deletion Protection Disabled
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Low Backup RDS DBInstance should have deletion protection set to true Documentation
Lambda Permission Misconfigured
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Low Best Practices Lambda permission may be misconfigured if the action field is not filled in by 'lambda: InvokeFunction' Documentation
IAM Policies Attached To User
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Low Best Practices IAM User should embed managed policies instead of inline policies Documentation
Security Group Ingress Has CIDR Not Recommended
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Low Best Practices AWS Security Group Ingress CIDR should not be /32 in case of IPV4 or /128 in case of IPV6 Documentation
CDN Configuration Is Missing
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Low Best Practices Content Delivery Network (CDN) service is used within AWS account to secure and accelerate the delivery of websites. The use of a CDN can provide a layer of security between your origin content and the destination. Documentation
Security Group Rule Without Description
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Low Best Practices AWS Security Group Rule should have description defined Documentation
Geo Restriction Disabled
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Low Best Practices Geo Restriction feature should be enabled, to restrict or allow users in specific locations accessing web application content Documentation
IAM Policies Without Groups
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Low Best Practices IAM policy should not apply directly to users, should be with a group Documentation
EFS Without Tags
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Low Build Process Amazon Elastic Filesystem should have filesystem tags associated Documentation
DynamoDB With Not Recommented Table Billing Mode
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Low Build Process Checks if DynamoDB Table Billing Mode is set to either PAY_PER_REQUEST or PROVISIONED Documentation
API Gateway Cache Cluster Disabled
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Low Insecure Configurations AWS API Gateway should have cache clustering enabled Documentation
Open Access To Resources Through API
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Low Insecure Configurations Open access to back-end resources through API Documentation
Wildcard In ACM Certificate Domain Name
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Low Insecure Configurations ACM Certificate should not use wildcards (*) in the domain name Documentation
Lambda Function Without Dead Letter Queue
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Low Insecure Configurations AWS Lambda Function should be configured for a Dead Letter Queue(DLQ) Documentation
RDS Using Default Port
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Low Networking and Firewall RDS should not use the default port (an attacker can easily guess the port). For engines related to Aurora, MariaDB or MySQL, the default port is 3306. PostgreSQL default port is 5432, Oracle default port is 1521 and SQL Server default port is 1433 Documentation
EC2 Network ACL Duplicate Rule
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Low Networking and Firewall A Network ACL's rule numbers cannot be repeated unless one is egress and the other is ingress Documentation
EC2 Instance Using Default VPC
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Low Networking and Firewall EC2 Instances should not be configured under a default VPC network Documentation
Redshift Using Default Port
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Low Networking and Firewall Redshift should not use the default port (5439) because an attacker can easily guess the port Documentation
ElastiCache Without VPC
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Low Networking and Firewall ElastiCache should be launched in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Documentation
ElastiCache Using Default Port
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Low Networking and Firewall ElastiCache should not use the default port (an attacker can easily guess the port). For engine set to Redis, the default port is 6379. The Memcached default port is 11211 Documentation
Shield Advanced Not In Use
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Low Networking and Firewall AWS Shield Advanced should be used for Amazon Route 53 hosted zone, AWS Global Accelerator accelerator, Elastic IP Address, Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon CloudFront Distribution to protect these resources against robust DDoS attacks Documentation
EMR Without VPC
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Low Networking and Firewall Elastic MapReduce Cluster (EMR) should be launched in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Documentation
CloudFront Without WAF
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Low Networking and Firewall All AWS CloudFront distributions should be integrated with the Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) service Documentation
API Gateway Deployment Without API Gateway UsagePlan Associated
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Low Observability API Gateway Deployment should have API Gateway UsagePlan defined and associated. Documentation
SNS Topic is Publicly Accessible For Subscription
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Low Observability Ensure appropriate subscribers to each SNS topic Documentation
VPC FlowLogs Disabled
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Low Observability VPC hasn't got any FlowLog associated Documentation
ECS Task Definition HealthCheck Missing
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Low Observability Amazon ECS must have the HealthCheck property defined to give more control over monitoring the health of tasks Documentation
Lambda Functions Without X-Ray Tracing
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Low Observability AWS Lambda functions should have TracingConfig enabled. For this, property 'tracingConfig.mode' should have the value 'Active' Documentation
S3 Bucket Logging Disabled
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Low Observability Server Access Logging must be enabled on S3 Buckets so that all changes are logged and trackable Documentation
CloudTrail Log File Validation Disabled
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Low Observability CloudTrail log file validation should be enabled Documentation
API Gateway Stage Without API Gateway UsagePlan Associated
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Low Resource Management API Gateway Stage should have API Gateway UsagePlan defined and associated. Documentation
ECS Task Definition Invalid CPU or Memory
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Low Resource Management In ECS Task Definition of FARGATE launch type if you specify an invalid CPU or Memory value, you will receive an error Documentation
VPC Without Attached Subnet
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Low Resource Management VPCs without attached subnets may indicate that they are not being used Documentation
SDB Domain Declared As A Resource
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Low Resource Management SimpleDB Domain resource should not be declared Documentation
EC2 Not EBS Optimized
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Info Best Practices It's considered a best practice for an EC2 instance to use an EBS optimized instance. This provides the best performance for your EBS volumes by minimizing contention between Amazon EBS I/O and other traffic from your instance Documentation
### AWS_BOM
Bellow are listed queries related with CloudFormation AWS_BOM:
Query Severity Category Description Help
BOM - MSK
2730c169-51d7-4ae7-99b5-584379eff1bb
Trace Bill Of Materials A list of MSK resources specified. Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is a fully managed service that enables you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. Documentation
BOM - AWS EBS
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Trace Bill Of Materials A list of EBS resources found. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) is an easy-to-use, scalable, high-performance block-storage service designed for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Documentation
BOM - SQS
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Trace Bill Of Materials A list of SQS resources specified. Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. Documentation
BOM - AWS MQ
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Trace Bill Of Materials A list of MQ resources found. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers on AWS. Documentation
BOM - AWS Elasticache
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Trace Bill Of Materials A list of Elasticache resources found. Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed, in-memory caching service supporting flexible, real-time use cases. You can use ElastiCache for caching, which accelerates application and database performance, or as a primary data store for use cases that don't require durability like session stores, gaming leaderboards, streaming, and analytics. ElastiCache is compatible with Redis and Memcached. Documentation
BOM - AWS EFS
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Trace Bill Of Materials A list of EFS resources found. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) automatically grows and shrinks as you add and remove files with no need for management or provisioning. Documentation
BOM - SNS
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Trace Bill Of Materials A list of SNS resources specified. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is a fully managed messaging service for both application-to-application (A2A) and application-to-person (A2P) communication. Documentation
BOM - AWS S3 Buckets
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Trace Bill Of Materials A list of S3 resources found. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. Documentation