IAM Password Without Uppercase Letter

• Query id: 83957b81-39c1-4191-8e12-671d2ce14354
• Query name: IAM Password Without Uppercase Letter
• Platform: Ansible
• Severity: Medium
• Category: Best Practices
• URL: Github

Description

IAM password should have at least one uppercase letter
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - yaml file

- name: Password policy for AWS account
  community.aws.iam_password_policy:
    state: present
    min_pw_length: 8
    require_symbols: false
    require_numbers: true
    require_uppercase: false
    require_lowercase: true
    allow_pw_change: true
    pw_max_age: 60
    pw_reuse_prevent: 5
    pw_expire: false
- name: aws_iam_account_password_policy
  community.aws.iam_password_policy:
    state: present
    min_pw_length: 8
    require_symbols: false
    require_numbers: true
    require_lowercase: true
    allow_pw_change: true
    pw_max_age: 60
    pw_reuse_prevent: 5
    pw_expire: false

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - yaml file

- name: Ok Password policy for AWS account
  community.aws.iam_password_policy:
    state: present
    min_pw_length: 8
    require_symbols: false
    require_numbers: true
    require_uppercase: true
    require_lowercase: true
    allow_pw_change: true
    pw_max_age: 60
    pw_reuse_prevent: 5
    pw_expire: false