EFS Volume With Disabled Transit Encryption

• Query id: c1282e03-b285-4637-aee7-eefe3a7bb658
• Query name: EFS Volume With Disabled Transit Encryption
• Platform: CloudFormation
• Severity: Medium
• Category: Encryption
• URL: Github

Description

Amazon EFS volume does not have encryption for data at transit enabled. To prevent such a scenario, enable the attribute 'TransitEncryption'
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - json file

{
    "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
    "Description": "A sample template",
    "Resources": {
      "ECSService": {
        "Properties": {
          "LoadBalancers": [
            {
              "TargetGroupArn": {
                "Ref": "TargetGroup"
              },
              "ContainerPort": 80,
              "ContainerName": "sample-app"
            }
          ],
          "Cluster": {
            "Ref": "ECSCluster"
          },
          "LaunchType": "FARGATE",
          "Role": {
            "Ref": "ECSServiceRole"
          },
          "TaskDefinition": {
            "Ref": "ECSTaskDefinition"
          },
          "DesiredCount": 1
        },
        "Type": "AWS::ECS::Service",
        "DependsOn": [
          "Listener"
        ]
      },
      "taskdefinition": {
        "Type": "AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition",
        "Properties": {

            "ContainerDefinitions": [
                {
                    "Name": "container-using-efs",
                    "Image": "amazonlinux:2",
                    "EntryPoint": [
                        "sh",
                        "-c"
                    ],
                    "Command": [
                        "ls -la /mount/efs"
                    ],
                    "MountPoints": [
                        {
                            "SourceVolume": "myEfsVolume",
                            "ContainerPath": "/mount/efs",
                            "ReadOnly": true
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "volumes": [
                {
                    "name": "myEfsVolume",
                    "efsVolumeConfiguration": {
                        "fileSystemId": "fs-1234",
                        "rootDirectory": "/path/to/my/data",
                        "TransitEncryptionPort": 10,
                        "TransitEncryption": "DISABLED"
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
      }
    }
  }

Positive test num. 2 - json file

{
    "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
    "Description": "A sample template",
    "Resources": {
      "ECSService": {
        "Properties": {
          "LoadBalancers": [
            {
              "TargetGroupArn": {
                "Ref": "TargetGroup"
              },
              "ContainerPort": 80,
              "ContainerName": "sample-app"
            }
          ],
          "Cluster": {
            "Ref": "ECSCluster"
          },
          "LaunchType": "FARGATE",
          "Role": {
            "Ref": "ECSServiceRole"
          },
          "TaskDefinition": {
            "Ref": "ECSTaskDefinition"
          },
          "DesiredCount": 1
        },
        "Type": "AWS::ECS::Service",
        "DependsOn": [
          "Listener"
        ]
      },
      "taskdefinition": {
        "Type": "AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition",
        "Properties": {
            "ContainerDefinitions": [
                {
                    "Name": "container-using-efs",
                    "Image": "amazonlinux:2",
                    "EntryPoint": [
                        "sh",
                        "-c"
                    ],
                    "Command": [
                        "ls -la /mount/efs"
                    ],
                    "MountPoints": [
                        {
                            "SourceVolume": "myEfsVolume",
                            "ContainerPath": "/mount/efs",
                            "ReadOnly": true
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "volumes": [
                {
                    "Name": "myEfsVolume",
                    "efsVolumeConfiguration": {
                        "FileSystemId": "fs-1234",
                        "RootDirectory": "/path/to/my/data",
                        "TransitEncryptionPort": 10
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
      }
    }
  }

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - json file

{
    "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
    "Description": "A sample template",
    "Resources": {
      "ECSService": {
        "Properties": {
          "LoadBalancers": [
            {
              "TargetGroupArn": {
                "Ref": "TargetGroup"
              },
              "ContainerPort": 80,
              "ContainerName": "sample-app"
            }
          ],
          "Cluster": {
            "Ref": "ECSCluster"
          },
          "LaunchType": "FARGATE",
          "Role": {
            "Ref": "ECSServiceRole"
          },
          "TaskDefinition": {
            "Ref": "ECSTaskDefinition"
          },
          "DesiredCount": 1
        },
        "Type": "AWS::ECS::Service",
        "DependsOn": [
          "Listener"
        ]
      },
      "taskdefinition": {
        "Type": "AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition",
        "Properties": {
            "ContainerDefinitions": [
                {
                    "Name": "container-using-efs",
                    "Image": "amazonlinux:2",
                    "EntryPoint": [
                        "sh",
                        "-c"
                    ],
                    "Command": [
                        "ls -la /mount/efs"
                    ],
                    "MountPoints": [
                        {
                            "SourceVolume": "myEfsVolume",
                            "ContainerPath": "/mount/efs",
                            "ReadOnly": true
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "Volumes": [
                {
                    "Name": "myEfsVolume",
                    "EfsVolumeConfiguration": {
                        "FileSystemId": "fs-1234",
                        "RootDirectory": "/path/to/my/data",
                        "TransitEncryptionPort": 10,
                        "TransitEncryption": "ENABLED"
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
      }
    }
  }