Amazon DMS Replication Instance Is Publicly Accessible

Query id: 030d3b18-1821-45b4-9e08-50efbe7becbb
Query name: Amazon DMS Replication Instance Is Publicly Accessible
Platform: Terraform
Severity: High
Category: Access Control
URL: Github

Description¶

Amazon DMS is publicly accessible, therefore exposing possible sensitive information. To prevent such a scenario, update the attribute 'PubliclyAccessible' to false.
Documentation

Code samples¶

Code samples with security vulnerabilities¶

Postitive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_dms_replication_instance" "test" {
  allocated_storage            = 20
  apply_immediately            = true
  auto_minor_version_upgrade   = true
  availability_zone            = "us-west-2c"
  engine_version               = "3.1.4"
  kms_key_arn                  = "arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:123456789012:key/12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012"
  multi_az                     = false
  preferred_maintenance_window = "sun:10:30-sun:14:30"
  publicly_accessible          = true
  replication_instance_class   = "dms.t2.micro"
  replication_instance_id      = "test-dms-replication-instance-tf"
  replication_subnet_group_id  = aws_dms_replication_subnet_group.test-dms-replication-subnet-group-tf.id

  vpc_security_group_ids = [
    "sg-12345678",
  ]

  depends_on = [
    aws_iam_role_policy_attachment.dms-access-for-endpoint-AmazonDMSRedshiftS3Role,
    aws_iam_role_policy_attachment.dms-cloudwatch-logs-role-AmazonDMSCloudWatchLogsRole,
    aws_iam_role_policy_attachment.dms-vpc-role-AmazonDMSVPCManagementRole
  ]
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities¶

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_dms_replication_instance" "test" {
  allocated_storage            = 20
  apply_immediately            = true
  auto_minor_version_upgrade   = true
  availability_zone            = "us-west-2c"
  engine_version               = "3.1.4"
  kms_key_arn                  = "arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:123456789012:key/12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012"
  multi_az                     = false
  preferred_maintenance_window = "sun:10:30-sun:14:30"
  replication_instance_class   = "dms.t2.micro"
  replication_instance_id      = "test-dms-replication-instance-tf"
  replication_subnet_group_id  = aws_dms_replication_subnet_group.test-dms-replication-subnet-group-tf.id

  vpc_security_group_ids = [
    "sg-12345678",
  ]

  depends_on = [
    aws_iam_role_policy_attachment.dms-access-for-endpoint-AmazonDMSRedshiftS3Role,
    aws_iam_role_policy_attachment.dms-cloudwatch-logs-role-AmazonDMSCloudWatchLogsRole,
    aws_iam_role_policy_attachment.dms-vpc-role-AmazonDMSVPCManagementRole
  ]
}

Negative test num. 2 - tf file

resource "aws_dms_replication_instance" "test" {
  allocated_storage            = 20
  apply_immediately            = true
  auto_minor_version_upgrade   = true
  availability_zone            = "us-west-2c"
  engine_version               = "3.1.4"
  kms_key_arn                  = "arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:123456789012:key/12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012"
  multi_az                     = false
  publicly_accessible          = false
  preferred_maintenance_window = "sun:10:30-sun:14:30"
  replication_instance_class   = "dms.t2.micro"
  replication_instance_id      = "test-dms-replication-instance-tf"
  replication_subnet_group_id  = aws_dms_replication_subnet_group.test-dms-replication-subnet-group-tf.id

  vpc_security_group_ids = [
    "sg-12345678",
  ]

  depends_on = [
    aws_iam_role_policy_attachment.dms-access-for-endpoint-AmazonDMSRedshiftS3Role,
    aws_iam_role_policy_attachment.dms-cloudwatch-logs-role-AmazonDMSCloudWatchLogsRole,
    aws_iam_role_policy_attachment.dms-vpc-role-AmazonDMSVPCManagementRole
  ]
}