BOM - AWS Elasticache

• Query id: c689f51b-9203-43b3-9d8b-caed123f706c
• Query name: BOM - AWS Elasticache
• Platform: CloudFormation
• Severity: Trace
• Category: Bill Of Materials
• URL: Github

Description

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.
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Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Postitive test num. 1 - yaml file

Resources:
  ElasticacheCluster:
    Type: 'AWS::ElastiCache::CacheCluster'
    Properties:    
      Engine: memcached
      CacheNodeType: cache.t2.micro
      NumCacheNodes: '1'
      CacheSubnetGroupName: default
      CacheSecurityGroupNames:
        - !Ref CacheSecurityGroup
  CacheSecurityGroup:
    Type: AWS::ElastiCache::SecurityGroup
    Properties: 
      Description: My ElastiCache Security Group
  SecurityGroupIngress:
    Type: AWS::ElastiCache::SecurityGroupIngress
    Properties: 
      CacheSecurityGroupName: !Ref CacheSecurityGroup
      EC2SecurityGroupName: !Ref SecurityGroup
  SecurityGroup:
    Type: AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup
    Properties:
      GroupDescription: Allow http to client host
      VpcId: !Ref myVPC
      SecurityGroupIngress:
        - IpProtocol: tcp
          FromPort: 80
          ToPort: 80
          CidrIp: 0.0.0.0/0
      SecurityGroupEgress:
        - IpProtocol: tcp
          FromPort: 80
          ToPort: 80
          CidrIp: 0.0.0.0/0

Postitive test num. 2 - json file

{
  "Resources": {
    "ElasticacheCluster": {
      "Type": "AWS::ElastiCache::CacheCluster",
      "Properties": {
          "CacheNodeType": "cache.m3.medium",
          "Engine": "memcached",
          "NumCacheNodes": "1",
          "CacheSubnetGroupName": "default"
      }
   }
  }
}

Postitive test num. 3 - yaml file

Resources:
  ElasticacheCluster:
    Type: 'AWS::ElastiCache::CacheCluster'
    Properties:    
      Engine: memcached
      CacheNodeType: cache.t2.micro
      NumCacheNodes: '1'
      CacheSubnetGroupName: default
      CacheSecurityGroupNames:
        - !Ref CacheSecurityGroup2
  CacheSecurityGroup2:
    Type: AWS::ElastiCache::SecurityGroup
    Properties: 
      Description: My ElastiCache Security Group
  SecurityGroupIngress2:
    Type: AWS::ElastiCache::SecurityGroupIngress
    Properties: 
      CacheSecurityGroupName: !Ref CacheSecurityGroup2
      EC2SecurityGroupName: !Ref SecurityGroup2
  SecurityGroup2:
    Type: AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup
    Properties:
      GroupDescription: Allow http to client host
      VpcId: !Ref myVPC
      SecurityGroupIngress:
        - IpProtocol: tcp
          FromPort: 80
          ToPort: 80
          CidrIp: 1.2.3.4/28

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - yaml file

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Resources:
  myDistribution:
    Type: AWS::CloudFront::Distribution
    Properties:
      DistributionConfig:
        Enabled: true

Negative test num. 2 - json file

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
  "Resources": {
    "myDistribution": {
      "Type": "AWS::CloudFront::Distribution",
      "Properties": {
        "DistributionConfig": {
          "Enabled": "true"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}