SQL DB Instance Publicly Accessible

• Query id: b187edca-b81e-4fdc-aff4-aab57db45edb
• Query name: SQL DB Instance Publicly Accessible
• Platform: Terraform
• Severity: High
• Category: Insecure Configurations
• URL: Github

Description

Cloud SQL instances should not be publicly accessible.
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "google_sql_database_instance" "positive1" {
  name             = "master-instance"
  database_version = "POSTGRES_11"
  region           = "us-central1"

  settings {
    # Second-generation instance tiers are based on the machine
    # type. See argument reference below.
    tier = "db-f1-micro"
  }
}

resource "google_sql_database_instance" "positive2" {
  name             = "postgres-instance-2"
  database_version = "POSTGRES_11"

  settings {
    tier = "db-f1-micro"

    ip_configuration {

      authorized_networks {
        name  = "pub-network"
        value = "0.0.0.0/0"
      }
    }
  }
}

resource "google_sql_database_instance" "positive3" {
  name             = "master-instance"
  database_version = "POSTGRES_11"
  region           = "us-central1"

  settings {
    # Second-generation instance tiers are based on the machine
    # type. See argument reference below.
    tier = "db-f1-micro"

    ip_configuration {
        ipv4_enabled = true
    }
  }
}

resource "google_sql_database_instance" "positive4" {
  name             = "master-instance"
  database_version = "POSTGRES_11"
  region           = "us-central1"

  settings {
    # Second-generation instance tiers are based on the machine
    # type. See argument reference below.
    tier = "db-f1-micro"

    ip_configuration {}
  }
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "google_sql_database_instance" "negative1" {

  name   = "private-instance-1"
  database_version = "POSTGRES_11"
  settings {
    ip_configuration {
      ipv4_enabled = false
      private_network = "some_private_network"
    }
  }
}

resource "google_sql_database_instance" "negative2" {
  name             = "postgres-instance-2"
  database_version = "POSTGRES_11"

  settings {
    tier = "db-f1-micro"

    ip_configuration {

      authorized_networks {

        content {
          name  = "some_trusted_network"
          value = "some_trusted_network_address"
        }
      }

      authorized_networks {

        content {
          name  = "another_trusted_network"
          value = "another_trusted_network_address"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}