AWS Password Policy With Unchangeable Passwords

Query id: e28ceb92-d588-4166-aac5-766c8f5b7472
Query name: AWS Password Policy With Unchangeable Passwords
Platform: Ansible
Severity: Medium
Category: Insecure Configurations
URL: Github

Description¶

Unchangeable passwords in AWS password policy
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: true
    require_lowercase: true
    allow_pw_change: false
    pw_max_age: 60
    pw_reuse_prevent: 5
    pw_expire: false
- name: Alias 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_password_change: false
    pw_max_age: 60
    pw_reuse_prevent: 5
    pw_expire: false

Code samples without security vulnerabilities¶

Negative 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: true
    require_lowercase: true
    allow_pw_change: true
    pw_max_age: 60
    pw_reuse_prevent: 5
    pw_expire: false