Hardcoded AWS Access Key In Lambda

• Query id: 2564172f-c92b-4261-9acd-464aed511696
• Query name: Hardcoded AWS Access Key In Lambda
• Platform: CloudFormation
• Severity: Medium
• Category: Secret Management
• URL: Github

Description

Lambda access/secret keys should not be hardcoded
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - yaml file

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Description: VPC function.
Resources:
  LambdaFunction3:
    Type: AWS::Lambda::Function
    Properties:
      Handler: index.handler
      Role: arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-role
      Environment:
        Variables:
          foo: "1234567890123456789012345678901234567890$"
          databaseName: lambdadb
          databaseUser: admin
      Code:
        S3Bucket: my-bucket
        S3Key: function.zip
      Runtime: nodejs12.x
      Timeout: 5
      TracingConfig:
        Mode: Active
      VpcConfig:
        SecurityGroupIds:
          - sg-085912345678492fb
        SubnetIds:
          - subnet-071f712345678e7c8
          - subnet-07fd123456788a036

Positive test num. 2 - yaml file

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Description: VPC function.
Resources:
  LambdaFunction4:
    Type: AWS::Lambda::Function
    Properties:
      Handler: index.handler
      Role: arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-role
      Environment:
        Variables:
          foo: "12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890$"
      Code:
        S3Bucket: my-bucket
        S3Key: function.zip
      Runtime: nodejs12.x
      Timeout: 5
      TracingConfig:
        Mode: Active
      VpcConfig:
        SecurityGroupIds:
          - sg-085912345678492fb
        SubnetIds:
          - subnet-071f712345678e7c8
          - subnet-07fd123456788a036

Positive test num. 3 - json file

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
  "Description": "VPC function.",
  "Resources": {
    "LambdaFunction5": {
      "Type": "AWS::Lambda::Function",
      "Properties": {
        "Code": {
          "S3Bucket": "my-bucket",
          "S3Key": "function.zip"
        },
        "Runtime": "nodejs12.x",
        "Timeout": 5,
        "TracingConfig": {
          "Mode": "Active"
        },
        "VpcConfig": {
          "SecurityGroupIds": [
            "sg-085912345678492fb"
          ],
          "SubnetIds": [
            "subnet-071f712345678e7c8",
            "subnet-07fd123456788a036"
          ]
        },
        "Handler": "index.handler",
        "Role": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-role",
        "Environment": {
          "Variables": {
            "foo": "1234567890123456789012345678901234567890$",
            "databaseName": "lambdadb",
            "databaseUser": "admin"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Positive test num. 4 - json file

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
  "Description": "VPC function.",
  "Resources": {
    "LambdaFunction6": {
      "Type": "AWS::Lambda::Function",
      "Properties": {
        "Code": {
          "S3Bucket": "my-bucket",
          "S3Key": "function.zip"
        },
        "Runtime": "nodejs12.x",
        "Timeout": 5,
        "TracingConfig": {
          "Mode": "Active"
        },
        "VpcConfig": {
          "SecurityGroupIds": [
            "sg-085912345678492fb"
          ],
          "SubnetIds": [
            "subnet-071f712345678e7c8",
            "subnet-07fd123456788a036"
          ]
        },
        "Handler": "index.handler",
        "Role": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-role",
        "Environment": {
          "Variables": {
            "foo": "12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890$"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - yaml file

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Description: VPC function.
Resources:
  LambdaFunction:
    Type: AWS::Lambda::Function
    Properties:
      Handler: index.handler
      Role: arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-role
      Environment:
        Variables:
          foo: "test"
      Code:
        S3Bucket: my-bucket
        S3Key: function.zip
      Runtime: nodejs12.x
      Timeout: 5
      TracingConfig:
        Mode: Active
      VpcConfig:
        SecurityGroupIds:
          - sg-085912345678492fb
        SubnetIds:
          - subnet-071f712345678e7c8
          - subnet-07fd123456788a036

Negative test num. 2 - json file

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
  "Description": "VPC function.",
  "Resources": {
    "LambdaFunction2": {
      "Type": "AWS::Lambda::Function",
      "Properties": {
        "Code": {
          "S3Bucket": "my-bucket",
          "S3Key": "function.zip"
        },
        "Runtime": "nodejs12.x",
        "Timeout": 5,
        "TracingConfig": {
          "Mode": "Active"
        },
        "VpcConfig": {
          "SecurityGroupIds": [
            "sg-085912345678492fb"
          ],
          "SubnetIds": [
            "subnet-071f712345678e7c8",
            "subnet-07fd123456788a036"
          ]
        },
        "Handler": "index.handler",
        "Role": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-role",
        "Environment": {
          "Variables": {
            "foo": "test"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}