Elasticsearch with HTTPS disabled

• Query id: d6c2d06f-43c1-488a-9ba1-8d75b40fc62d
• Query name: Elasticsearch with HTTPS disabled
• Platform: Ansible
• Severity: Medium
• Category: Networking and Firewall
• URL: Github

Description

Amazon Elasticsearch does not have encryption for its domains enabled. To prevent such a scenario, update the attribute 'EnforceHTTPS' to true.
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - yaml file

- name: Create OpenSearch domain for dev environment, no zone awareness, no dedicated masters
  community.aws.opensearch:
    domain_name: "dev-cluster"
    engine_version: Elasticsearch_1.1
    cluster_config:
      instance_type: "t2.small.search"
      instance_count: 2
      zone_awareness: false
      dedicated_master: false
    domain_endpoint_options:
      enforce_https: false
    ebs_options:
      ebs_enabled: true
      volume_type: "gp2"
      volume_size: 10
    access_policies: "{{ lookup('file', 'policy.json') | from_json }}"

Positive test num. 2 - yaml file

- name: Create OpenSearch domain for dev environment, no zone awareness, no dedicated masters
  community.aws.opensearch:
    domain_name: "dev-cluster"
    engine_version: Elasticsearch_1.1
    cluster_config:
      instance_type: "t2.small.search"
      instance_count: 2
      zone_awareness: false
      dedicated_master: false
    domain_endpoint_options:
      custom_endpoint_enabled: false
    ebs_options:
      ebs_enabled: true
      volume_type: "gp2"
      volume_size: 10
    access_policies: "{{ lookup('file', 'policy.json') | from_json }}"

Positive test num. 3 - yaml file

- name: Create OpenSearch domain for dev environment, no zone awareness, no dedicated masters
  community.aws.opensearch:
    domain_name: "dev-cluster"
    engine_version: Elasticsearch_1.1
    cluster_config:
      instance_type: "t2.small.search"
      instance_count: 2
      zone_awareness: false
      dedicated_master: false
    ebs_options:
      ebs_enabled: true
      volume_type: "gp2"
      volume_size: 10
    access_policies: "{{ lookup('file', 'policy.json') | from_json }}"

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - yaml file

- name: Create OpenSearch domain with dedicated masters
  community.aws.opensearch:
    domain_name: "my-domain"
    engine_version: OpenSearch_1.1
    cluster_config:
      instance_type: "t2.small.search"
      instance_count: 12
      dedicated_master: true
      zone_awareness: true
      availability_zone_count: 2
      dedicated_master_instance_type: "t2.small.search"
      dedicated_master_instance_count: 3
      warm_enabled: true
      warm_type: "ultrawarm1.medium.search"
      warm_count: 1
      cold_storage_options:
        enabled: false
    domain_endpoint_options:
      enforce_https: true
    ebs_options:
      ebs_enabled: true
      volume_type: "io1"
      volume_size: 10
      iops: 1000
    vpc_options:
      subnets:
        - "subnet-e537d64a"
        - "subnet-e537d64b"
      security_groups:
        - "sg-dd2f13cb"
        - "sg-dd2f13cc"
    snapshot_options:
      automated_snapshot_start_hour: 13
    access_policies: "{{ lookup('file', 'policy.json') | from_json }}"
    encryption_at_rest_options:
      enabled: false
    node_to_node_encryption_options:
      enabled: false
    tags:
      Environment: Development
      Application: Search
    wait: true