Launch Configuration Is Not Encrypted

• Query id: 4de9de27-254e-424f-bd70-4c1e95790838
• Query name: Launch Configuration Is Not Encrypted
• Platform: Terraform
• Severity: High
• Category: Encryption
• URL: Github

Description

Launch Configurations should have the data in the volumes encrypted. To encrypt the data, the 'encrypted' parameter should be set to true in each volume
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_launch_configuration" "positive1" {
  image_id      = data.aws_ami.ubuntu.id
  instance_type = "m4.large"
  spot_price    = "0.001"
  user_data_base64 = "c29tZUtleQ==" # someKey

  lifecycle {
    create_before_destroy = true
  }

  ebs_block_device {
    device_name = "/dev/xvda1"
  }
}

resource "aws_launch_configuration" "positive2" {
  image_id      = data.aws_ami.ubuntu.id
  instance_type = "m4.large"
  spot_price    = "0.001"
  user_data_base64 = "c29tZUtleQ==" # someKey

  lifecycle {
    create_before_destroy = true
  }

  ebs_block_device {
    device_name = "/dev/xvda1"
    encrypted = false
  }
}

resource "aws_launch_configuration" "positive3" {
  name = "test-launch-config"

  root_block_device {
    encrypted = false
  }
}

Positive test num. 2 - tf file

module "asg" {
  source = "terraform-aws-modules/autoscaling/aws"
  version = "1.0.4"

  # Launch configuration
  lc_name = "example-lc"

  image_id        = "ami-ebd02392"
  instance_type   = "t2.micro"
  security_groups = ["sg-12345678"]

  ebs_block_device = [
     {
      device_name           = "/dev/xvdz"
      volume_type           = "gp2"
      volume_size           = "50"
      delete_on_termination = true
    }
  ]

  root_block_device = [
     {
      volume_size = "50"
      volume_type = "gp2"
     }
  ]

  # Auto scaling group
  asg_name                  = "example-asg"
  vpc_zone_identifier       = ["subnet-1235678", "subnet-87654321"]
  health_check_type         = "EC2"
  min_size                  = 0
  max_size                  = 1
  desired_capacity          = 1
  wait_for_capacity_timeout = 0

  tags = [
    {
      key                 = "Environment"
      value               = "dev"
      propagate_at_launch = true
    },
    {
      key                 = "Project"
      value               = "megasecret"
      propagate_at_launch = true
    },
  ]
}

Positive test num. 3 - tf file

module "asg" {
  source = "terraform-aws-modules/autoscaling/aws"
  version = "1.0.4"

  # Launch configuration
  lc_name = "example-lc"

  image_id        = "ami-ebd02392"
  instance_type   = "t2.micro"
  security_groups = ["sg-12345678"]

  ebs_block_device = [ 
    {
      device_name           = "/dev/xvdz"
      volume_type           = "gp2"
      volume_size           = "50"
      delete_on_termination = true
      encrypted             = false
    }
  ]

  root_block_device = [ 
    {
      volume_size = "50"
      volume_type = "gp2"
    }
  ]

  # Auto scaling group
  asg_name                  = "example-asg"
  vpc_zone_identifier       = ["subnet-1235678", "subnet-87654321"]
  health_check_type         = "EC2"
  min_size                  = 0
  max_size                  = 1
  desired_capacity          = 1
  wait_for_capacity_timeout = 0

  tags = [
    {
      key                 = "Environment"
      value               = "dev"
      propagate_at_launch = true
    },
    {
      key                 = "Project"
      value               = "megasecret"
      propagate_at_launch = true
    },
  ]
}

Positive test num. 4 - tf file

module "asg" {
  source = "terraform-aws-modules/autoscaling/aws"
  version = "1.0.4"

  # Launch configuration
  lc_name = "example-lc"

  image_id        = "ami-ebd02392"
  instance_type   = "t2.micro"
  security_groups = ["sg-12345678"]

  ebs_block_device = [
     {
      device_name           = "/dev/xvdz"
      volume_type           = "gp2"
      volume_size           = "50"
      delete_on_termination = true
     }
  ]

  root_block_device = [
    {
      volume_size = "50"
      volume_type = "gp2"
      encrypted   = false
    }
  ]

  # Auto scaling group
  asg_name                  = "example-asg"
  vpc_zone_identifier       = ["subnet-1235678", "subnet-87654321"]
  health_check_type         = "EC2"
  min_size                  = 0
  max_size                  = 1
  desired_capacity          = 1
  wait_for_capacity_timeout = 0

  tags = [
    {
      key                 = "Environment"
      value               = "dev"
      propagate_at_launch = true
    },
    {
      key                 = "Project"
      value               = "megasecret"
      propagate_at_launch = true
    },
  ]
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_launch_configuration" "negative1" {
  image_id      = data.aws_ami.ubuntu.id
  instance_type = "m4.large"
  spot_price    = "0.001"
  user_data_base64 = "c29tZUtleQ==" # someKey

  lifecycle {
    create_before_destroy = true
  }

  ebs_block_device {
    device_name = "/dev/xvda1"
    encrypted = true
  }
}

resource "aws_launch_configuration" "negative2" {
  name = "test-launch-config"

  ephemeral_block_device {
    encrypted = false
  }
}

Negative test num. 2 - tf file

module "asg" {
  source = "terraform-aws-modules/autoscaling/aws"
  version = "1.0.4"

  # Launch configuration
  lc_name = "example-lc"

  image_id        = "ami-ebd02392"
  instance_type   = "t2.micro"
  security_groups = ["sg-12345678"]

  ebs_block_device = [
    {
      device_name           = "/dev/xvdz"
      volume_type           = "gp2"
      volume_size           = "50"
      delete_on_termination = true
      encrypted             = true
    }
 ]

  root_block_device = [ 
    {
      volume_size = "50"
      volume_type = "gp2"
      encrypted   = true
    }
  ]

  # Auto scaling group
  asg_name                  = "example-asg"
  vpc_zone_identifier       = ["subnet-1235678", "subnet-87654321"]
  health_check_type         = "EC2"
  min_size                  = 0
  max_size                  = 1
  desired_capacity          = 1
  wait_for_capacity_timeout = 0

  tags = [
    {
      key                 = "Environment"
      value               = "dev"
      propagate_at_launch = true
    },
    {
      key                 = "Project"
      value               = "megasecret"
      propagate_at_launch = true
    },
  ]
}