AWS Password Policy With Unchangeable Passwords

• Query id: 9ef7d25d-9764-4224-9968-fa321c56ef76
• Query name: AWS Password Policy With Unchangeable Passwords
• Platform: Terraform
• Severity: Medium
• Category: Insecure Configurations
• URL: Github

Description

Unchangeable passwords in AWS password policy
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_sqs_queue" "positive1" {
  name = "examplequeue"
}

// comment
resource "aws_iam_account_password_policy" "positive2" {
  minimum_password_length        = 8
  require_lowercase_characters   = true
  require_numbers                = true
  require_uppercase_characters   = true
  require_symbols                = true
  allow_users_to_change_password = false
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_sqs_queue" "negative1" {
  name = "examplequeue"
}

// comment
resource "aws_iam_account_password_policy" "negative2" {
  minimum_password_length        = 10
  require_lowercase_characters   = true
  require_numbers                = true
  require_uppercase_characters   = true
  require_symbols                = true
  allow_users_to_change_password = true
}