API Gateway Method Does Not Contains An API Key

Query id: 671211c5-5d2a-4e97-8867-30fc28b02216
Query name: API Gateway Method Does Not Contains An API Key
Platform: Terraform
Severity: Medium
Category: Access Control
URL: Github

Description¶

An API Key should be required on a method request.
Documentation

Code samples¶

Code samples with security vulnerabilities¶

Positive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_api_gateway_method" "positive1" {
  rest_api_id       = aws_api_gateway_rest_api.MyDemoAPI.id
  resource_id       = aws_api_gateway_resource.MyDemoResource.id
  http_method       = "GET"
  authorization     = "NONE"
}

resource "aws_api_gateway_method" "positive2" {
  rest_api_id       = aws_api_gateway_rest_api.MyDemoAPI.id
  resource_id       = aws_api_gateway_resource.MyDemoResource.id
  http_method       = "GET"
  authorization     = "NONE"
  api_key_required  = false
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities¶

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_api_gateway_method" "negative1" {
  rest_api_id       = aws_api_gateway_rest_api.MyDemoAPI.id
  resource_id       = aws_api_gateway_resource.MyDemoResource.id
  http_method       = "GET"
  authorization     = "NONE"
  api_key_required  = true
}