Inline Policies Are Attached To ECS Service

• Query id: 9e8c89b3-7997-4d15-93e4-7911b9db99fd
• Query name: Inline Policies Are Attached To ECS Service
• Platform: CloudFormation
• Severity: Low
• Category: Insecure Configurations
• URL: Github

Description

Check if any ECS service has inline policies attached, which are embedded directly into an entity (user, group,...), instead of the equivalent recommended managed policies.
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - yaml file

Resources:
  InlinePolicy:
    Type: AWS::ECS::Service
    DependsOn:
    - Listener
    Properties:
      Role:
        Ref: IAMPolicy
      LoadBalancers:
      - TargetGroupArn:
          Ref: TargetGroup
        ContainerPort: 80
        ContainerName: sample-app
      Cluster:
        Ref: ECSCluster
  IAMPolicy:
    Type: 'AWS::IAM::Policy'
    Properties:
      PolicyName: root
      PolicyDocument:
        Version: 2012-10-17
        Statement:
          - Effect: Allow
            Action: '*'
            Resource: '*'

Positive test num. 2 - json file

{
  "Resources": {
    "InlinePolicy": {
      "Type": "AWS::ECS::Service",
      "DependsOn": [
        "Listener"
      ],
      "Properties": {
        "Role": {
          "Ref": "IAMPolicy"
        },
        "LoadBalancers": [
          {
            "TargetGroupArn": {
              "Ref": "TargetGroup"
            },
            "ContainerPort": 80,
            "ContainerName": "sample-app"
          }
        ],
        "Cluster": {
          "Ref": "ECSCluster"
        }
      }
    },
    "IAMPolicy": {
      "Type": "AWS::IAM::Policy",
      "Properties": {
        "PolicyName": "root",
        "PolicyDocument": {
          "Version": "2012-10-17T00:00:00Z",
          "Statement": [
            {
              "Effect": "Allow",
              "Action": "*",
              "Resource": "*"
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - yaml file

Resources:
  InlinePolicy:
    Type: AWS::ECS::Service
    DependsOn:
    - Listener
    Properties:
      LoadBalancers:
      - TargetGroupArn:
          Ref: TargetGroup
        ContainerPort: 80
        ContainerName: sample-app
      Cluster:
        Ref: ECSCluster
  IAMPolicy:
    Type: 'AWS::IAM::Policy'
    Properties:
      PolicyName: root
      PolicyDocument:
        Version: 2012-10-17
        Statement:
          - Effect: Allow
            Action: '*'
            Resource: '*'

Negative test num. 2 - json file

{
  "Resources": {
    "IAMPolicy": {
      "Properties": {
        "PolicyName": "root",
        "PolicyDocument": {
          "Version": "2012-10-17T00:00:00Z",
          "Statement": [
            {
              "Effect": "Allow",
              "Action": "*",
              "Resource": "*"
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      "Type": "AWS::IAM::Policy"
    },
    "InlinePolicy": {
      "DependsOn": [
        "Listener"
      ],
      "Properties": {
        "LoadBalancers": [
          {
            "TargetGroupArn": {
              "Ref": "TargetGroup"
            },
            "ContainerPort": 80,
            "ContainerName": "sample-app"
          }
        ],
        "Cluster": {
          "Ref": "ECSCluster"
        }
      },
      "Type": "AWS::ECS::Service"
    }
  }
}