Stack Retention Disabled

• Query id: 17d5ba1d-7667-4729-b1a6-b11fde3db7f7
• Query name: Stack Retention Disabled
• Platform: Ansible
• Severity: Medium
• Category: Backup
• URL: Github

Description

Make sure that retain_stack is enabled to keep the Stack and it's associated resources during resource destruction
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - yaml file

- name: Create a stack set with instances in two accounts
  community.aws.cloudformation_stack_set:
    name: my-stack2
    description: Test stack in two accounts
    state: present
    template_url: https://s3.amazonaws.com/my-bucket/cloudformation.template
    accounts: [1234567890, 2345678901]
    regions:
    - us-east-1

- name: on subsequent calls, templates are optional but parameters and tags can be altered
  community.aws.cloudformation_stack_set:
    name: my-stack3
    state: present
    parameters:
      InstanceName: my_stacked_instance
    tags:
      foo: bar
      test: stack
    accounts: [1234567890, 2345678901]
    regions:
    - us-east-1
    purge_stacks: true

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - yaml file

- name: Create a stack set with instances in two accounts
  community.aws.cloudformation_stack_set:
    name: my-stack
    description: Test stack in two accounts
    state: present
    template_url: https://s3.amazonaws.com/my-bucket/cloudformation.template
    accounts: [1234567890, 2345678901]
    regions:
    - us-east-1
    purge_stacks: false