Geo Restriction Disabled

• Query id: 7f8843f0-9ea5-42b4-a02b-753055113195
• Query name: Geo Restriction Disabled
• Platform: CloudFormation
• Severity: Low
• Category: Best Practices
• URL: Github

Description

Geo Restriction feature should be enabled, to restrict or allow users in specific locations accessing web application content
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - yaml file

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Resources:
  myDistribution:
    Type: AWS::CloudFront::Distribution
    Properties:
      DistributionConfig:
        Logging:
          IncludeCookies: 'false'
          Bucket: mylogs.s3.amazonaws.com
          Prefix: myprefix
        Restrictions:
          GeoRestriction:
            RestrictionType: none
        ViewerCertificate:
          CloudFrontDefaultCertificate: 'true'

Positive test num. 2 - json file

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
  "Resources": {
    "myDistribution": {
      "Type": "AWS::CloudFront::Distribution",
      "Properties": {
        "DistributionConfig": {
          "Logging": {
            "IncludeCookies": "false",
            "Bucket": "mylogs.s3.amazonaws.com",
            "Prefix": "myprefix"
          },
          "Restrictions": {
            "GeoRestriction": {
              "RestrictionType": "none"
            }
          },
          "ViewerCertificate": {
            "CloudFrontDefaultCertificate": "true"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - yaml file

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Resources:
  myDistribution:
    Type: AWS::CloudFront::Distribution
    Properties:
      DistributionConfig:
        Logging:
          IncludeCookies: 'false'
          Bucket: mylogs.s3.amazonaws.com
          Prefix: myprefix
        Restrictions:
          GeoRestriction:
            RestrictionType: whitelist
            Locations:
            - AQ
            - CV
        ViewerCertificate:
          CloudFrontDefaultCertificate: 'true'

Negative test num. 2 - json file

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
  "Resources": {
    "myDistribution": {
      "Type": "AWS::CloudFront::Distribution",
      "Properties": {
        "DistributionConfig": {
          "Logging": {
            "IncludeCookies": "false",
            "Bucket": "mylogs.s3.amazonaws.com",
            "Prefix": "myprefix"
          },
          "Restrictions": {
            "GeoRestriction": {
              "RestrictionType": "whitelist",
              "Locations": [
                "AQ",
                "CV"
              ]
            }
          },
          "ViewerCertificate": {
            "CloudFrontDefaultCertificate": "true"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}