EC2 Instance Using Default VPC

Query id: 7e4a6e76-568d-43ef-8c4e-36dea481bff1
Query name: EC2 Instance Using Default VPC
Platform: Terraform
Severity: Low
Category: Networking and Firewall
URL: Github

Description¶

EC2 Instances should not be configured under a default VPC network
Documentation

Code samples¶

Code samples with security vulnerabilities¶

Positive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_instance" "positive1" {
  ami = "ami-003634241a8fcdec0"

  instance_type = "t2.micro"

  subnet_id   = aws_subnet.my_subnet.id

}

resource "aws_subnet" "my_subnet" {
  vpc_id     = aws_vpc.default.id
  cidr_block = "10.0.1.0/24"

  tags = {
    Name = "Main"
  }
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities¶

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_instance" "negative1" {
  ami = "ami-003634241a8fcdec0"

  instance_type = "t2.micro"

  subnet_id   = aws_subnet.my_subnet2.id

}

resource "aws_subnet" "my_subnet2" {
  vpc_id     = aws_vpc.main.id
  cidr_block = "10.0.1.0/24"

  tags = {
    Name = "Main"
  }
}