Password Without Reuse Prevention

Query id: 89806cdc-9c2e-4bd1-a0dc-53f339bcfb2a
Query name: Password Without Reuse Prevention
Platform: Terraform
Severity: Low
Category: Best Practices
CWE: 521
URL: Github

Description¶

Check if IAM account password has the reuse password configured with 24
Documentation

Code samples¶

Code samples with security vulnerabilities¶

Positive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_iam_account_password_policy" "positive1" {
  require_lowercase_characters   = true
  require_numbers                = true
  require_uppercase_characters   = true
  require_symbols                = true
  allow_users_to_change_password = true
  password_reuse_prevention = 20
}

resource "aws_iam_account_password_policy" "positive2" {
  minimum_password_length        = 3
  require_lowercase_characters   = true
  require_numbers                = true
  require_uppercase_characters   = true
  require_symbols                = true
  allow_users_to_change_password = true
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities¶

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_iam_account_password_policy" "negative1" {
  minimum_password_length        = 8
  require_lowercase_characters   = true
  require_numbers                = true
  require_uppercase_characters   = true
  require_symbols                = true
  allow_users_to_change_password = true
  password_reuse_prevention = 24
}