Azure Instance Using Basic Authentication

Query id: e2d834b7-8b25-4935-af53-4a60668dcbe0
Query name: Azure Instance Using Basic Authentication
Platform: Ansible
Severity: High
Category: Best Practices
URL: Github

Description¶

Azure Instances should use SSH Key instead of basic authentication
Documentation

Code samples¶

Code samples with security vulnerabilities¶

Positive test num. 1 - yaml file

---
- name: Create a VM with a custom image
  azure_rm_virtualmachine:
    resource_group: myResourceGroup
    name: testvm001
    vm_size: Standard_DS1_v2
    admin_username: adminUser
    admin_password: password01
    image: customimage001
    os_type: Linux

Code samples without security vulnerabilities¶

Negative test num. 1 - yaml file

---
- name: Create a VM with a custom image
  azure_rm_virtualmachine:
    resource_group: myResourceGroup
    name: testvm001
    vm_size: Standard_DS1_v2
    ssh_password_enabled: false
    ssh_public_keys:
      - path: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
        key_data: somegeneratedkeydata
    image: customimage001
    os_type: Linux