CA Certificate Identifier Is Outdated

• Query id: 5eccd62d-8b4d-46d3-83ea-1879f3cbd3ce
• Query name: CA Certificate Identifier Is Outdated
• Platform: Ansible
• Severity: Medium
• Category: Encryption
• URL: Github

Description

The CA certificate Identifier must be 'rds-ca-2019'.
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - yaml file

---
- name: create minimal aurora instance in default VPC and default subnet group
  community.aws.rds_instance:
    engine: aurora
    db_instance_identifier: ansible-test-aurora-db-instance
    instance_type: db.t2.small
    password: "{{ password }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    cluster_id: ansible-test-cluster
    ca_certificate_identifier: rds-ca-2015
- name: create a DB instance using the default AWS KMS encryption key
  community.aws.rds_instance:
    id: test-encrypted-db
    state: present
    engine: mariadb
    storage_encrypted: True
    db_instance_class: db.t2.medium
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
    allocated_storage: "{{ allocated_storage }}"

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - yaml file

- name: create minimal aurora instance in default VPC and default subnet group
  community.aws.rds_instance:
    engine: aurora
    db_instance_identifier: ansible-test-aurora-db-instance
    instance_type: db.t2.small
    password: '{{ password }}'
    username: '{{ username }}'
    cluster_id: ansible-test-cluster
    ca_certificate_identifier: rds-ca-2019
- name: Create a DB instance using the default AWS KMS encryption key
  community.aws.rds_instance:
    id: test-encrypted-db
    state: present
    engine: mariadb
    storage_encrypted: true
    db_instance_class: db.t2.medium
    username: '{{ username }}'
    password: '{{ password }}'
    allocated_storage: '{{ allocated_storage }}'
    ca_certificate_identifier: rds-ca-2019