SQS With SSE Disabled

• Query id: e1e7b278-2a8b-49bd-a26e-66a7f70b17eb
• Query name: SQS With SSE Disabled
• Platform: Ansible
• Severity: Medium
• Category: Encryption
• URL: Github

Description

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) queue should protect the contents of their messages using Server-Side Encryption (SSE)
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Postitive test num. 1 - yaml file

- name: Create SQS queue with redrive policy
  community.aws.sqs_queue:
    name: my-queue
    region: ap-southeast-2
    default_visibility_timeout: 120
    message_retention_period: 86400
    maximum_message_size: 1024
    delivery_delay: 30
    receive_message_wait_time: 20
    policy: "{{ json_dict }}"
    redrive_policy:
      maxReceiveCount: 5
      deadLetterTargetArn: arn:aws:sqs:eu-west-1:123456789012:my-dead-queue

- name: Drop redrive policy
  community.aws.sqs_queue:
    name: my-queue
    region: ap-southeast-2
    redrive_policy: {}

- name: Create FIFO queue
  community.aws.sqs_queue:
    name: fifo-queue
    region: ap-southeast-2
    queue_type: fifo
    content_based_deduplication: yes

- name: Tag queue
  community.aws.sqs_queue:
    name: fifo-queue
    region: ap-southeast-2
    tags:
      example: SomeValue

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - yaml file

- name: Configure Encryption, automatically uses a new data key every hour
  community.aws.sqs_queue:
    name: fifo-queue
    region: ap-southeast-2
    kms_master_key_id: alias/MyQueueKey
    kms_data_key_reuse_period_seconds: 3600

- name: Delete SQS queue
  community.aws.sqs_queue:
    name: my-queue
    region: ap-southeast-2
    state: absent