MQ Broker Is Publicly Accessible

• Query id: 4eb5f791-c861-4afd-9f94-f2a6a3fe49cb
• Query name: MQ Broker Is Publicly Accessible
• Platform: Terraform
• Severity: Medium
• Category: Insecure Configurations
• URL: Github

Description

Check if any MQ Broker is not publicly accessible
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_mq_broker" "positive1" {
  broker_name = "example"

  configuration {
    id       = aws_mq_configuration.test.id
    revision = aws_mq_configuration.test.latest_revision
  }

  engine_type        = "ActiveMQ"
  engine_version     = "5.15.0"
  host_instance_type = "mq.t2.micro"
  security_groups    = [aws_security_group.test.id]

  user {
    username = "ExampleUser"
    password = "MindTheGap"
  }

  publicly_accessible = true
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_mq_broker" "negative1" {
  broker_name = "example"

  configuration {
    id       = aws_mq_configuration.test.id
    revision = aws_mq_configuration.test.latest_revision
  }

  engine_type        = "ActiveMQ"
  engine_version     = "5.15.0"
  host_instance_type = "mq.t2.micro"
  security_groups    = [aws_security_group.test.id]

  user {
    username = "ExampleUser"
    password = "MindTheGap"
  }
}