IAM Password Without Uppercase Letter

• Query id: c5ff7bc9-d8ea-46dd-81cb-8286f3222249
• Query name: IAM Password Without Uppercase Letter
• Platform: Terraform
• Severity: Medium
• Category: Best Practices
• URL: Github

Description

IAM password should have at least one uppercase letter
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_iam_account_password_policy" "positive1" {
  require_lowercase_characters   = true
  require_numbers                = true
  require_uppercase_characters   = false
  require_symbols                = true
  allow_users_to_change_password = true
}

resource "aws_iam_account_password_policy" "positive2" {
  minimum_password_length        = 3
  require_lowercase_characters   = true
  require_numbers                = true
  require_symbols                = true
  allow_users_to_change_password = true
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_iam_account_password_policy" "negative1" {
  minimum_password_length        = 8
  require_lowercase_characters   = true
  require_numbers                = true
  require_uppercase_characters   = true
  require_symbols                = true
  allow_users_to_change_password = true
}