Project-wide SSH Keys Are Enabled In VM Instances

Query id: 099b4411-d11e-4537-a0fc-146b19762a79
Query name: Project-wide SSH Keys Are Enabled In VM Instances
Platform: Ansible
Severity: Medium
Category: Secret Management
CWE: 284
URL: Github

Description¶

VM Instance should block project-wide SSH keys
Documentation

Code samples¶

Code samples with security vulnerabilities¶

Positive test num. 1 - yaml file

- name: ssh_keys_unblocked
  google.cloud.gcp_compute_instance:
    metadata:
      block-project-ssh-keys: no
    zone: us-central1-a
    auth_kind: serviceaccount
- name: ssh_keys_missing
  google.cloud.gcp_compute_instance:
    metadata:
      startup-script-url: gs:://graphite-playground/bootstrap.sh
      cost-center: '12345'
    zone: us-central1-a
    auth_kind: serviceaccount
- name: no_metadata
  google.cloud.gcp_compute_instance:
    zone: us-central1-a
    auth_kind: serviceaccount

Code samples without security vulnerabilities¶

Negative test num. 1 - yaml file

- name: ssh_keys_blocked
  google.cloud.gcp_compute_instance:
    metadata:
      block-project-ssh-keys: yes
    zone: us-central1-a
    auth_kind: serviceaccount