RDS Using Default Port

• Query id: 1fe9d958-ddce-4228-a124-05265a959a8b
• Query name: RDS Using Default Port
• Platform: CloudFormation
• Severity: Low
• Category: Networking and Firewall
• URL: Github

Description

RDS should not use the default port (an attacker can easily guess the port). For engines related to Aurora, MariaDB or MySQL, the default port is 3306. PostgreSQL default port is 5432, Oracle default port is 1521 and SQL Server default port is 1433
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - yaml file

Resources:
 MyDB:
  Type: AWS::RDS::DBInstance
  Properties:
    DBSecurityGroups:
    - Ref: MyDbSecurityByEC2SecurityGroup
    - Ref: MyDbSecurityByCIDRIPGroup
    AllocatedStorage: '5'
    DBInstanceClass: db.t2.small
    Engine: oracle-ee
    LicenseModel: bring-your-own-license
    MasterUsername: master
    MasterUserPassword: SecretPassword01
    BackupRetentionPeriod: 7
    Port: 1521
  DeletionPolicy: Snapshot

Positive test num. 2 - json file

{
  "Resources": {
    "MyDB": {
      "Type": "AWS::RDS::DBInstance",
      "Properties": {
        "BackupRetentionPeriod": 7,
        "DBSecurityGroups": [
          {
            "Ref": "MyDbSecurityByEC2SecurityGroup"
          },
          {
            "Ref": "MyDbSecurityByCIDRIPGroup"
          }
        ],
        "AllocatedStorage": "5",
        "DBInstanceClass": "db.t2.small",
        "Engine": "oracle-ee",
        "LicenseModel": "bring-your-own-license",
        "MasterUsername": "master",
        "MasterUserPassword": "SecretPassword01",
        "Port": 1521
      },
      "DeletionPolicy": "Snapshot"
    }
  }
}

Positive test num. 3 - yaml file

Resources:
 MyDB:
  Type: AWS::RDS::DBInstance
  Properties:
    DBSecurityGroups:
    - Ref: MyDbSecurityByEC2SecurityGroup
    - Ref: MyDbSecurityByCIDRIPGroup
    AllocatedStorage: '5'
    DBInstanceClass: db.t2.small
    Engine: mysql
    LicenseModel: bring-your-own-license
    MasterUsername: master
    MasterUserPassword: SecretPassword01
    BackupRetentionPeriod: 7
    Port: 3306
  DeletionPolicy: Snapshot

Positive test num. 4 - json file

{
  "Resources": {
    "MyDB": {
      "Type": "AWS::RDS::DBInstance",
      "Properties": {
        "BackupRetentionPeriod": 7,
        "DBSecurityGroups": [
          {
            "Ref": "MyDbSecurityByEC2SecurityGroup"
          },
          {
            "Ref": "MyDbSecurityByCIDRIPGroup"
          }
        ],
        "AllocatedStorage": "5",
        "DBInstanceClass": "db.t2.small",
        "Engine": "mysql",
        "LicenseModel": "bring-your-own-license",
        "MasterUsername": "master",
        "MasterUserPassword": "SecretPassword01",
        "Port": 3306
      },
      "DeletionPolicy": "Snapshot"
    }
  }
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - yaml file

Resources:
 MyDB:
  Type: AWS::RDS::DBInstance
  Properties:
    DBSecurityGroups:
    - Ref: MyDbSecurityByEC2SecurityGroup
    - Ref: MyDbSecurityByCIDRIPGroup
    AllocatedStorage: '5'
    DBInstanceClass: db.t2.small
    Engine: oracle-ee
    LicenseModel: bring-your-own-license
    MasterUsername: master
    MasterUserPassword: SecretPassword01
    BackupRetentionPeriod: 7
    Port: 1522
  DeletionPolicy: Snapshot

Negative test num. 2 - json file

{
  "Resources": {
    "MyDB": {
      "Type": "AWS::RDS::DBInstance",
      "Properties": {
        "BackupRetentionPeriod": 7,
        "DBSecurityGroups": [
          {
            "Ref": "MyDbSecurityByEC2SecurityGroup"
          },
          {
            "Ref": "MyDbSecurityByCIDRIPGroup"
          }
        ],
        "AllocatedStorage": "5",
        "DBInstanceClass": "db.t2.small",
        "Engine": "oracle-ee",
        "LicenseModel": "bring-your-own-license",
        "MasterUsername": "master",
        "MasterUserPassword": "SecretPassword01",
        "Port": 1522
      },
      "DeletionPolicy": "Snapshot"
    }
  }
}

Negative test num. 3 - yaml file

Resources:
 MyDB:
  Type: AWS::RDS::DBInstance
  Properties:
    DBSecurityGroups:
    - Ref: MyDbSecurityByEC2SecurityGroup
    - Ref: MyDbSecurityByCIDRIPGroup
    AllocatedStorage: '5'
    DBInstanceClass: db.t2.small
    Engine: mysql
    LicenseModel: bring-your-own-license
    MasterUsername: master
    MasterUserPassword: SecretPassword01
    BackupRetentionPeriod: 7
    Port: 3307
  DeletionPolicy: Snapshot

Negative test num. 4 - json file

{
  "Resources": {
    "MyDB": {
      "Type": "AWS::RDS::DBInstance",
      "Properties": {
        "BackupRetentionPeriod": 7,
        "DBSecurityGroups": [
          {
            "Ref": "MyDbSecurityByEC2SecurityGroup"
          },
          {
            "Ref": "MyDbSecurityByCIDRIPGroup"
          }
        ],
        "AllocatedStorage": "5",
        "DBInstanceClass": "db.t2.small",
        "Engine": "mysql",
        "LicenseModel": "bring-your-own-license",
        "MasterUsername": "master",
        "MasterUserPassword": "SecretPassword01",
        "Port": 3307
      },
      "DeletionPolicy": "Snapshot"
    }
  }
}