Serverless API X-Ray Tracing Disabled

  • Query id: c757c6a3-ac87-4b9d-b28d-e5a5add6a315
  • Query name: Serverless API X-Ray Tracing Disabled
  • Platform: CloudFormation
  • Severity: Medium
  • Category: Observability
  • CWE: 778
  • URL: Github

Description

AWS Serverless API should have X-Ray Tracing enabled
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - yaml file
AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Transform: AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31
Description: AWS SAM template with a simple API definition
Resources:
  ApiGatewayApi:
    Type: AWS::Serverless::Api
    Properties:
      StageName: prod
Positive test num. 2 - yaml file
AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Transform: AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31
Description: AWS SAM template with a simple API definition
Resources:
  ApiGatewayApi2:
    Type: AWS::Serverless::Api
    Properties:
      StageName: prod
      TracingEnabled: false

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - yaml file
AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Transform: AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31
Description: AWS SAM template with a simple API definition
Resources:
  ApiGatewayApi3:
    Type: AWS::Serverless::Api
    Properties:
      StageName: prod
      TracingEnabled: true