Shield Advanced Not In Use

Query id: 084c6686-2a70-4710-91b1-000393e54c12
Query name: Shield Advanced Not In Use
Platform: Terraform
Severity: Low
Category: Networking and Firewall
URL: Github

Description¶

AWS Shield Advanced should be used for Amazon Route 53 hosted zone, AWS Global Accelerator accelerator, Elastic IP Address, Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon CloudFront Distribution to protect these resources against robust DDoS attacks
Documentation

Code samples¶

Code samples with security vulnerabilities¶

Positive test num. 1 - tf file

data "aws_availability_zones" "available" {}
data "aws_region" "current" {}
data "aws_caller_identity" "current" {}

resource "aws_eip" "positive1" {
  vpc = true
}

resource "aws_shield_protection" "positive1" {
  name         = "example"
  resource_arn = "arn:aws:ec2:${data.aws_region.current.name}:${data.aws_caller_identity.current.account_id}:eip-allocation/${aws_eip.positive.id}"

  tags = {
    Environment = "Dev"
  }
}

Positive test num. 2 - tf file

resource "aws_route53_zone" "positive2" {
  name = "example.com"
}

resource "aws_shield_protection" "positive2" {
  name         = "example"
  resource_arn = aws_route53_zone.positive.arn

  tags = {
    Environment = "Dev"
  }
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities¶

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

data "aws_availability_zones" "available" {}
data "aws_region" "current" {}
data "aws_caller_identity" "current" {}

resource "aws_eip" "negative1" {
  vpc = true
}

resource "aws_shield_protection" "negative1" {
  name         = "example"
  resource_arn = "arn:aws:ec2:${data.aws_region.current.name}:${data.aws_caller_identity.current.account_id}:eip-allocation/${aws_eip.negative1.id}"

  tags = {
    Environment = "Dev"
  }
}

Negative test num. 2 - tf file

resource "aws_route53_zone" "negative2" {
  name = "example.com"
}

resource "aws_shield_protection" "negative2" {
  name         = "example"
  resource_arn = aws_route53_zone.negative2.arn

  tags = {
    Environment = "Dev"
  }
}