Redshift Not Encrypted

• Query id: 3b316b05-564c-44a7-9c3f-405bb95e211e
• Query name: Redshift Not Encrypted
• Platform: CloudFormation
• Severity: High
• Category: Encryption
• URL: Github

Description

AWS Redshift Cluster should be encrypted. Check if 'Encrypted' field is false or undefined (default is false)
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - yaml file

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: 2010-09-09
Description: Redshift Stack
Resources:
  RedshiftCluster:
    Type: AWS::Redshift::Cluster
    Properties:
      ClusterSubnetGroupName: !Ref RedshiftClusterSubnetGroup
      ClusterType: !If [ SingleNode, single-node, multi-node ]
      NumberOfNodes: !If [ SingleNode, !Ref 'AWS::NoValue', !Ref RedshiftNodeCount ] #'
      DBName: !Sub ${DatabaseName}
      IamRoles:
        - !GetAtt RawDataBucketAccessRole.Arn
      MasterUserPassword: !Ref MasterUserPassword
      MasterUsername: !Ref MasterUsername
      PubliclyAccessible: true
      NodeType: dc1.large
      Port: 5439
      VpcSecurityGroupIds:
        - !Sub ${RedshiftSecurityGroup}
      PreferredMaintenanceWindow: Sun:09:15-Sun:09:45
  DataBucket:
    Type: AWS::S3::Bucket
    Properties:
      BucketName: !Sub ${DataBucketName}

Positive test num. 2 - yaml file

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: 2010-09-11
Description: Redshift Stack2
Resources:
  RedshiftCluster2:
    Type: AWS::Redshift::Cluster
    Properties:
      ClusterSubnetGroupName: !Ref RedshiftClusterSubnetGroup
      ClusterType: !If [ SingleNode, single-node, multi-node ]
      NumberOfNodes: !If [ SingleNode, !Ref 'AWS::NoValue', !Ref RedshiftNodeCount ] #'
      DBName: !Sub ${DatabaseName}
      IamRoles:
        - !GetAtt RawDataBucketAccessRole.Arn
      MasterUserPassword: !Ref MasterUserPassword
      MasterUsername: !Ref MasterUsername
      PubliclyAccessible: true
      NodeType: dc1.large
      Port: 5439
      VpcSecurityGroupIds:
        - !Sub ${RedshiftSecurityGroup}
      PreferredMaintenanceWindow: Sun:09:15-Sun:09:45
      Encrypted: false
  DataBucket:
    Type: AWS::S3::Bucket
    Properties:
      BucketName: !Sub ${DataBucketName}

Positive test num. 3 - json file

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09T00:00:00Z",
  "Description": "Redshift Stack",
  "Resources": {
    "RedshiftCluster": {
      "Type": "AWS::Redshift::Cluster",
      "Properties": {
        "IamRoles": [
          "RawDataBucketAccessRole.Arn"
        ],
        "MasterUserPassword": "MasterUserPassword",
        "PubliclyAccessible": true,
        "NodeType": "dc1.large",
        "VpcSecurityGroupIds": [
          "${RedshiftSecurityGroup}"
        ],
        "PreferredMaintenanceWindow": "Sun:09:15-Sun:09:45",
        "ClusterSubnetGroupName": "RedshiftClusterSubnetGroup",
        "ClusterType": [
          "SingleNode",
          "single-node",
          "multi-node"
        ],
        "NumberOfNodes": [
          "SingleNode",
          "AWS::NoValue",
          "RedshiftNodeCount"
        ],
        "DBName": "${DatabaseName}",
        "MasterUsername": "MasterUsername",
        "Port": 5439
      }
    },
    "DataBucket": {
      "Type": "AWS::S3::Bucket",
      "Properties": {
        "BucketName": "${DataBucketName}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Positive test num. 4 - json file

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-11T00:00:00Z",
  "Description": "Redshift Stack2",
  "Resources": {
    "RedshiftCluster2": {
      "Type": "AWS::Redshift::Cluster",
      "Properties": {
        "MasterUserPassword": "MasterUserPassword",
        "PubliclyAccessible": true,
        "NodeType": "dc1.large",
        "Port": 5439,
        "VpcSecurityGroupIds": [
          "${RedshiftSecurityGroup}"
        ],
        "PreferredMaintenanceWindow": "Sun:09:15-Sun:09:45",
        "ClusterSubnetGroupName": "RedshiftClusterSubnetGroup",
        "ClusterType": [
          "SingleNode",
          "single-node",
          "multi-node"
        ],
        "NumberOfNodes": [
          "SingleNode",
          "AWS::NoValue",
          "RedshiftNodeCount"
        ],
        "DBName": "${DatabaseName}",
        "IamRoles": [
          "RawDataBucketAccessRole.Arn"
        ],
        "MasterUsername": "MasterUsername",
        "Encrypted": false
      }
    },
    "DataBucket": {
      "Type": "AWS::S3::Bucket",
      "Properties": {
        "BucketName": "${DataBucketName}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - yaml file

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: 2010-09-11
Description: Redshift Stack2
Resources:
  RedshiftCluster2:
    Type: AWS::Redshift::Cluster
    Properties:
      ClusterSubnetGroupName: !Ref RedshiftClusterSubnetGroup
      ClusterType: !If [ SingleNode, single-node, multi-node ]
      NumberOfNodes: !If [ SingleNode, !Ref 'AWS::NoValue', !Ref RedshiftNodeCount ] #'
      DBName: !Sub ${DatabaseName}
      IamRoles:
        - !GetAtt RawDataBucketAccessRole.Arn
      MasterUserPassword: !Ref MasterUserPassword
      MasterUsername: !Ref MasterUsername
      PubliclyAccessible: true
      NodeType: dc1.large
      Port: 5439
      VpcSecurityGroupIds:
        - !Sub ${RedshiftSecurityGroup}
      PreferredMaintenanceWindow: Sun:09:15-Sun:09:45
      Encrypted: true
  DataBucket:
    Type: AWS::S3::Bucket
    Properties:
      BucketName: !Sub ${DataBucketName}

Negative test num. 2 - json file

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-11T00:00:00Z",
  "Description": "Redshift Stack2",
  "Resources": {
    "RedshiftCluster2": {
      "Properties": {
        "ClusterType": [
          "SingleNode",
          "single-node",
          "multi-node"
        ],
        "NumberOfNodes": [
          "SingleNode",
          "AWS::NoValue",
          "RedshiftNodeCount"
        ],
        "DBName": "${DatabaseName}",
        "IamRoles": [
          "RawDataBucketAccessRole.Arn"
        ],
        "NodeType": "dc1.large",
        "PreferredMaintenanceWindow": "Sun:09:15-Sun:09:45",
        "Encrypted": true,
        "ClusterSubnetGroupName": "RedshiftClusterSubnetGroup",
        "MasterUsername": "MasterUsername",
        "PubliclyAccessible": true,
        "Port": 5439,
        "VpcSecurityGroupIds": [
          "${RedshiftSecurityGroup}"
        ],
        "MasterUserPassword": "MasterUserPassword"
      },
      "Type": "AWS::Redshift::Cluster"
    },
    "DataBucket": {
      "Type": "AWS::S3::Bucket",
      "Properties": {
        "BucketName": "${DataBucketName}"
      }
    }
  }
}