Security Group Without Description

• Query id: cb3f5ed6-0d18-40de-a93d-b3538db31e8c
• Query name: Security Group Without Description
• Platform: Terraform
• Severity: Info
• Category: Best Practices
• CWE: 710
• URL: Github

Description

It's considered a best practice for AWS Security Group to have a description
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_security_group" "allow_tls" {
  name        = "allow_tls"
  vpc_id      = aws_vpc.main.id

  ingress {
    description      = "TLS from VPC"
    from_port        = 443
    to_port          = 443
    protocol         = "tcp"
    cidr_blocks      = [aws_vpc.main.cidr_block]
    ipv6_cidr_blocks = [aws_vpc.main.ipv6_cidr_block]
  }

  tags = {
    Name = "allow_tls"
  }
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_security_group" "allow_tls" {
  name        = "allow_tls"
  description = "Allow TLS inbound traffic"
  vpc_id      = aws_vpc.main.id

  ingress {
    description      = "TLS from VPC"
    from_port        = 443
    to_port          = 443
    protocol         = "tcp"
    cidr_blocks      = [aws_vpc.main.cidr_block]
    ipv6_cidr_blocks = [aws_vpc.main.ipv6_cidr_block]
  }

  tags = {
    Name = "allow_tls"
  }
}