RDS Instance SSL Action Disabled

• Query id: 7a1ee8a9-71be-4b11-bb70-efb62d16863b
• Query name: RDS Instance SSL Action Disabled
• Platform: Terraform
• Severity: High
• Category: Networking and Firewall
• URL: Github

Description

ssl_action parameter should be set to Open for RDS instances
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Postitive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "alicloud_db_instance" "default" {
    engine = "MySQL"
    engine_version = "5.6"
    db_instance_class = "rds.mysql.t1.small"
    db_instance_storage = "10"
    ssl_action = "Close"
    parameters = [{
        name = "innodb_large_prefix"
        value = "ON"
    },{
        name = "connect_timeout"
        value = "50"
    }]
}

Postitive test num. 2 - tf file

resource "alicloud_db_instance" "default" {
    engine = "MySQL"
    engine_version = "5.6"
    db_instance_class = "rds.mysql.t1.small"
    db_instance_storage = "10"
    parameters = [{
        name = "innodb_large_prefix"
        value = "ON"
    },{
        name = "connect_timeout"
        value = "50"
    }]
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "alicloud_db_instance" "default" {
    engine = "MySQL"
    engine_version = "5.6"
    db_instance_class = "rds.mysql.t1.small"
    db_instance_storage = "10"
    ssl_action = "Open"
    parameters = [{
        name = "innodb_large_prefix"
        value = "ON"
    },{
        name = "connect_timeout"
        value = "50"
    }]
}

Negative test num. 2 - tf file

resource "alicloud_db_instance" "default" {
    engine = "MySQL"
    engine_version = "5.6"
    db_instance_class = "rds.mysql.t1.small"
    db_instance_storage = "10"
    ssl_action = "Update"
    parameters = [{
        name = "innodb_large_prefix"
        value = "ON"
    },{
        name = "connect_timeout"
        value = "50"
    }]
}