No Password Policy Enabled

Query id: b592ffd4-0577-44b6-bd35-8c5ee81b5918
Query name: No Password Policy Enabled
Platform: Terraform
Severity: Medium
Category: Insecure Configurations
CWE: 521
URL: Github

Description¶

IAM password policies should be set through the password minimum length and reset password attributes
Documentation

Code samples¶

Code samples with security vulnerabilities¶

Positive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_iam_user_login_profile" "positive2" {
  user    = aws_iam_user.example.name
  pgp_key = "keybase:some_person_that_exists"

  password_reset_required = false

  password_length = 15
}

resource "aws_iam_user_login_profile" "positive3" {
  user    = aws_iam_user.example.name
  pgp_key = "keybase:some_person_that_exists"

  password_reset_required = true

  password_length = 13
}

resource "aws_iam_user_login_profile" "positive6" {
  user    = aws_iam_user.example.name
  pgp_key = "keybase:some_person_that_exists"

  password_length = 13
}

resource "aws_iam_user_login_profile" "positive7" {
  user    = aws_iam_user.example.name
  pgp_key = "keybase:some_person_that_exists"

  password_reset_required = false
  password_length = 13
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities¶

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_iam_user_login_profile" "negative1" {
  user    = aws_iam_user.example.name
  pgp_key = "keybase:some_person_that_exists"

  password_reset_required = true

  password_length = 15
}