CloudFront Without WAF

• Query id: 0f139403-303f-467c-96bd-e717e6cfd62d
• Query name: CloudFront Without WAF
• Platform: CloudFormation
• Severity: Medium
• Category: Networking and Firewall
• URL: Github

Description

All AWS CloudFront distributions should be integrated with the Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) service
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - yaml file

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: 2010-09-09
Resources:
  cloudfrontdistribution:
    Type: AWS::CloudFront::Distribution
    Properties:
      DistributionConfig:
        Enabled: true
        CacheBehaviors:
          - LambdaFunctionAssociations:
              - EventType: string-value
                LambdaFunctionARN: string-value
        DefaultCacheBehavior:
          LambdaFunctionAssociations:
            - EventType: string-value
              LambdaFunctionARN: string-value
        IPV6Enabled: boolean-value
        Origins:
          - CustomOriginConfig:
              OriginKeepaliveTimeout: integer-value
              OriginReadTimeout: integer-value
      Tags:
        - Key: string-value
          Value: string-value

Positive test num. 2 - json file

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09T00:00:00Z",
  "Resources": {
    "cloudfrontdistribution": {
      "Type": "AWS::CloudFront::Distribution",
      "Properties": {
        "Tags": [
          {
            "Key": "string-value",
            "Value": "string-value"
          }
        ],
        "DistributionConfig": {
          "Enabled": true,
          "CacheBehaviors": [
            {
              "LambdaFunctionAssociations": [
                {
                  "EventType": "string-value",
                  "LambdaFunctionARN": "string-value"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "DefaultCacheBehavior": {
            "LambdaFunctionAssociations": [
              {
                "EventType": "string-value",
                "LambdaFunctionARN": "string-value"
              }
            ]
          },
          "IPV6Enabled": "boolean-value",
          "Origins": [
            {
              "CustomOriginConfig": {
                "OriginKeepaliveTimeout": "integer-value",
                "OriginReadTimeout": "integer-value"
              }
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Positive test num. 3 - yaml file

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: 2010-09-09
Resources:
  cloudfrontdistribution:
    Type: AWS::CloudFront::Distribution
    Properties:
      DistributionConfig:
        Enabled: true
        CacheBehaviors:
          - LambdaFunctionAssociations:
              - EventType: string-value
                LambdaFunctionARN: string-value
        DefaultCacheBehavior:
          LambdaFunctionAssociations:
            - EventType: string-value
              LambdaFunctionARN: string-value
        IPV6Enabled: boolean-value
        Origins:
          - CustomOriginConfig:
              OriginKeepaliveTimeout: integer-value
              OriginReadTimeout: integer-value
        WebACLId: ""
      Tags:
        - Key: string-value
          Value: string-value

Positive test num. 4 - json file

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09T00:00:00Z",
  "Resources": {
    "cloudfrontdistribution": {
      "Type": "AWS::CloudFront::Distribution",
      "Properties": {
        "DistributionConfig": {
          "Enabled": true,
          "CacheBehaviors": [
            {
              "LambdaFunctionAssociations": [
                {
                  "EventType": "string-value",
                  "LambdaFunctionARN": "string-value"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "DefaultCacheBehavior": {
            "LambdaFunctionAssociations": [
              {
                "EventType": "string-value",
                "LambdaFunctionARN": "string-value"
              }
            ]
          },
          "IPV6Enabled": "boolean-value",
          "Origins": [
            {
              "CustomOriginConfig": {
                "OriginKeepaliveTimeout": "integer-value",
                "OriginReadTimeout": "integer-value"
              }
            }
          ],
          "WebACLId": ""
        },
        "Tags": [
          {
            "Value": "string-value",
            "Key": "string-value"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - yaml file

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: 2010-09-09
Resources:
  cloudfrontdistribution:
    Type: AWS::CloudFront::Distribution
    Properties:
      DistributionConfig:
        Enabled: true
        CacheBehaviors:
          - LambdaFunctionAssociations:
              - EventType: string-value
                LambdaFunctionARN: string-value
        DefaultCacheBehavior:
          LambdaFunctionAssociations:
            - EventType: string-value
              LambdaFunctionARN: string-value
        IPV6Enabled: boolean-value
        Origins:
          - CustomOriginConfig:
              OriginKeepaliveTimeout: integer-value
              OriginReadTimeout: integer-value
        WebACLId: string-value
      Tags:
        - Key: string-value
          Value: string-value

Negative test num. 2 - json file

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09T00:00:00Z",
  "Resources": {
    "cloudfrontdistribution": {
      "Type": "AWS::CloudFront::Distribution",
      "Properties": {
        "DistributionConfig": {
          "Enabled": true,
          "CacheBehaviors": [
            {
              "LambdaFunctionAssociations": [
                {
                  "EventType": "string-value",
                  "LambdaFunctionARN": "string-value"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "DefaultCacheBehavior": {
            "LambdaFunctionAssociations": [
              {
                "EventType": "string-value",
                "LambdaFunctionARN": "string-value"
              }
            ]
          },
          "IPV6Enabled": "boolean-value",
          "Origins": [
            {
              "CustomOriginConfig": {
                "OriginKeepaliveTimeout": "integer-value",
                "OriginReadTimeout": "integer-value"
              }
            }
          ],
          "WebACLId": "string-value"
        },
        "Tags": [
          {
            "Value": "string-value",
            "Key": "string-value"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}