Elasticsearch Domain Not Encrypted Node To Node

Query id: 967eb3e6-26fc-497d-8895-6428beb6e8e2
Query name: Elasticsearch Domain Not Encrypted Node To Node
Platform: Terraform
Severity: Medium
Category: Encryption
CWE: 311
URL: Github

Description¶

Elasticsearch Domain encryption should be enabled node to node
Documentation

Code samples¶

Code samples with security vulnerabilities¶

Positive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_elasticsearch_domain" "positive1" {
  domain_name           = "example"
  elasticsearch_version = "1.5"

  cluster_config {
    instance_type = "r4.large.elasticsearch"
  }

  snapshot_options {
    automated_snapshot_start_hour = 23
  }

  tags = {
    Domain = "TestDomain"
  }
}

Positive test num. 2 - tf file

resource "aws_elasticsearch_domain" "positive1" {
  domain_name           = "example"
  elasticsearch_version = "1.5"

  cluster_config {
    instance_type = "r4.large.elasticsearch"
  }

  snapshot_options {
    automated_snapshot_start_hour = 23
  }

  node_to_node_encryption {
    enabled = false
  }

  tags = {
    Domain = "TestDomain"
  }
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities¶

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_elasticsearch_domain" "negative1" {
  domain_name           = "example"
  elasticsearch_version = "1.5"

  cluster_config {
    instance_type = "r4.large.elasticsearch"
  }

  snapshot_options {
    automated_snapshot_start_hour = 23
  }

  node_to_node_encryption {
    enabled = true
  }

  tags = {
    Domain = "TestDomain"
  }
}