IAM Access Key Is Exposed

Query id: 7081f85c-b94d-40fd-8b45-a4f1cac75e46
Query name: IAM Access Key Is Exposed
Platform: Terraform
Severity: Medium
Category: Access Control
URL: Github

Description¶

IAM Access Key should not be active for root users
Documentation

Code samples¶

Code samples with security vulnerabilities¶

Positive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_iam_access_key" "positive1" {
  user = "root"
  status = "Active"
}

resource "aws_iam_access_key" "positive2" {
  user = "root"
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities¶

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_iam_access_key" "negative1" {
  user = "some-user"
}

resource "aws_iam_access_key" "negative2" {
  user = "some-user"
  status = "Active"
}

resource "aws_iam_access_key" "negative3" {
  user = "root"
  status = "Inactive"
}