MSSQL Server Auditing Disabled

• Query id: 609839ae-bd81-4375-9910-5bce72ae7b92
• Query name: MSSQL Server Auditing Disabled
• Platform: Terraform
• Severity: Medium
• Category: Observability
• URL: Github

Description

Make sure that for MSSQL Servers, that 'Auditing' is set to 'On'
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "azurerm_mssql_server" "positive1" {
    name                         = "mssqlserver"
    resource_group_name          = azurerm_resource_group.example.name
    location                     = azurerm_resource_group.example.location
    version                      = "12.0"
    administrator_login          = "mradministrator"
    administrator_login_password = "thisIsDog11"
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

provider "azurerm" {
  features {}
}

resource "azurerm_resource_group" "example" {
  name     = "example-resources"
  location = "West Europe"
}

resource "azurerm_mssql_server" "example" {
    name                         = "mssqlserver"
    resource_group_name          = azurerm_resource_group.example.name
    location                     = azurerm_resource_group.example.location
    version                      = "12.0"
    administrator_login          = "mradministrator"
    administrator_login_password = "thisIsDog11"
}

resource "azurerm_mssql_database" "example" {
  name      = "example-db"
  server_id = azurerm_mssql_server.example.id
}

resource "azurerm_storage_account" "example" {
  name                     = "examplesa"
  resource_group_name      = azurerm_resource_group.example.name
  location                 = azurerm_resource_group.example.location
  account_tier             = "Standard"
  account_replication_type = "LRS"
}

resource "azurerm_mssql_server_extended_auditing_policy" "example" {
  database_id                             = azurerm_mssql_database.example.id
  storage_endpoint                        = azurerm_storage_account.example.primary_blob_endpoint
  storage_account_access_key              = azurerm_storage_account.example.primary_access_key
  storage_account_access_key_is_secondary = false
  retention_in_days                       = 6
}