Serverless Function Environment Variables Not Encrypted

• Query id: a7f8ac28-eed1-483d-87c8-4c325f022572
• Query name: Serverless Function Environment Variables Not Encrypted
• Platform: CloudFormation
• Severity: Medium
• Category: Encryption
• URL: Github

Description

AWS Serverless Function should encrypt environment variables
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Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - yaml file

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Transform: AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31
Description: AWS SAM template with a simple API definition
Resources:
  Function:
    Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
    Properties:
      PackageType: Image
      ImageUri: account-id.dkr.ecr.region.amazonaws.com/ecr-repo-name:image-name
      ImageConfig:
        Command:
          - "app.lambda_handler"
        EntryPoint:
          - "entrypoint1"
        WorkingDirectory: "workDir"
      Tags:
        - Key: Type
          Value: AWS Serverless Function
      DeadLetterConfig:
        TargetArn: arn:aws:sqs:us-east-1:2324243535:aaa
        Type: SQS
      Environment:
        Variables:
          key: value

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - yaml file

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Transform: AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31
Description: AWS SAM template with a simple API definition
Resources:
  Function1:
    Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
    Properties:
      PackageType: Image
      ImageUri: account-id.dkr.ecr.region.amazonaws.com/ecr-repo-name:image-name
      ImageConfig:
        Command:
          - "app.lambda_handler"
        EntryPoint:
          - "entrypoint1"
        WorkingDirectory: "workDir"
      Tags:
        - Key: Type
          Value: AWS Serverless Function
      DeadLetterConfig:
        TargetArn: arn:aws:sqs:us-east-1:2324243535:aaa
        Type: SQS
      Environment:
        Variables:
          key: value
      KmsKeyArn: arn:aws:kms:us-west-1:123456789123:key/12345678-12cc-45bb-98aa-9876543210cc