Instance With No VPC

• Query id: a31a5a29-718a-4ff4-8001-a69e5e4d029e
• Query name: Instance With No VPC
• Platform: Terraform
• Severity: Low
• Category: Insecure Configurations
• URL: Github

Description

EC2 Instances should be configured under a VPC network. AWS VPCs provide the controls to facilitate a formal process for approving and testing all network connections and changes to the firewall and router configurations.
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"

}

Positive test num. 2 - tf file

module "ec2_instance" {
  source  = "terraform-aws-modules/ec2-instance/aws"
  version = "~> 3.0"

  name = "single-instance"

  ami                    = "ami-ebd02392"
  instance_type          = "t2.micro"
  key_name               = "user1"
  monitoring             = true
  subnet_id              = "subnet-eddcdzz4"

  tags = {
    Terraform   = "true"
    Environment = "dev"
  }
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

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

  instance_type = "t2.micro"

  vpc_security_group_ids = ["aws_security_group.instance.id"]

}

Negative test num. 2 - tf file

module "ec2_instance" {
  source  = "terraform-aws-modules/ec2-instance/aws"
  version = "~> 3.0"

  name = "single-instance"

  ami                    = "ami-ebd02392"
  instance_type          = "t2.micro"
  key_name               = "user1"
  monitoring             = true
  vpc_security_group_ids = ["sg-12345678"]
  subnet_id              = "subnet-eddcdzz4"

  tags = {
    Terraform   = "true"
    Environment = "dev"
  }
}