Redshift Not Encrypted

• Query id: cfdcabb0-fc06-427c-865b-c59f13e898ce
• Query name: Redshift Not Encrypted
• Platform: Terraform
• Severity: High
• Category: Encryption
• CWE: 311
• URL: Github

Description

AWS Redshift Cluster should be encrypted. Check if 'encrypted' field is false or undefined (default is false)
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_redshift_cluster" "positive1" {
  cluster_identifier = "tf-redshift-cluster"
  database_name      = "mydb"
  master_username    = "foo"
  master_password    = "Mustbe8characters"
  node_type          = "dc1.large"
  cluster_type       = "single-node"
}

resource "aws_redshift_cluster" "positive2" {
  cluster_identifier = "tf-redshift-cluster"
  database_name      = "mydb"
  master_username    = "foo"
  master_password    = "Mustbe8characters"
  node_type          = "dc1.large"
  cluster_type       = "single-node"
  encrypted          = false
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_redshift_cluster" "negative1" {
  cluster_identifier = "tf-redshift-cluster"
  database_name      = "mydb"
  master_username    = "foo"
  master_password    = "Mustbe8characters"
  node_type          = "dc1.large"
  cluster_type       = "single-node"
  encrypted          = true
}