API Gateway Without Configured Authorizer

Query id: 0a96ce49-4163-4ee6-8169-eb3b0797d694
Query name: API Gateway Without Configured Authorizer
Platform: Terraform
Severity: Medium
Category: Access Control
CWE: 284
URL: Github

Description¶

API Gateway REST API should have an API Gateway Authorizer
Documentation

Code samples¶

Code samples with security vulnerabilities¶

Positive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_api_gateway_authorizer" "demo" {
  name                   = "demo"
  rest_api_id            = aws_api_gateway_rest_api.demo.id
  authorizer_uri         = aws_lambda_function.authorizer.invoke_arn
  authorizer_credentials = aws_iam_role.invocation_role.arn
}

resource "aws_api_gateway_rest_api" "demo2" {
  name = "auth-demo"
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities¶

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_api_gateway_authorizer" "demo" {
  name                   = "demo"
  rest_api_id            = aws_api_gateway_rest_api.demo.id
  authorizer_uri         = aws_lambda_function.authorizer.invoke_arn
  authorizer_credentials = aws_iam_role.invocation_role.arn
}

resource "aws_api_gateway_rest_api" "demo" {
  name = "auth-demo"
}