Misconfigured Password Policy Expiration

Query id: ce60d060-efb8-4bfd-9cf7-ff8945d00d90
Query name: Misconfigured Password Policy Expiration
Platform: Terraform
Severity: Low
Category: Best Practices
URL: Github

Description¶

No password expiration policy
Documentation

Code samples¶

Code samples with security vulnerabilities¶

Positive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_iam_account_password_policy" "positive1" {
  minimum_password_length        = 8
  require_lowercase_characters   = true
  require_numbers                = true
  require_uppercase_characters   = true
  require_symbols                = true
  allow_users_to_change_password = true
  max_password_age               = 180
}

// comment
resource "aws_iam_account_password_policy" "positive2" {
  minimum_password_length        = 8
  require_lowercase_characters   = true
  require_numbers                = true
  require_uppercase_characters   = true
  require_symbols                = true
  allow_users_to_change_password = true
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities¶

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_iam_account_password_policy" "negative1" {
  minimum_password_length        = 8
  require_lowercase_characters   = true
  require_numbers                = true
  require_uppercase_characters   = true
  require_symbols                = true
  allow_users_to_change_password = true
  max_password_age               = 10
}