API Gateway With Invalid Compression

Query id: ed35928e-195c-4405-a252-98ccb664ab7b
Query name: API Gateway With Invalid Compression
Platform: Terraform
Severity: Low
Category: Encryption
URL: Github

Description¶

API Gateway should have valid compression, which means attribute 'minimum_compression_size' should be set and its value should be greater than -1 and smaller than 10485760.
Documentation

Code samples¶

Code samples with security vulnerabilities¶

Positive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_api_gateway_rest_api" "positive1" {
  name = "regional-example"

  endpoint_configuration {
    types = ["REGIONAL"]
  }
}


resource "aws_api_gateway_rest_api" "positive2" {
  name = "regional-example"

  endpoint_configuration {
    types = ["REGIONAL"]
  }

  minimum_compression_size = -1
}


resource "aws_api_gateway_rest_api" "positive3" {
  name = "regional-example"

  endpoint_configuration {
    types = ["REGIONAL"]
  }

  minimum_compression_size = 10485760
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities¶

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_api_gateway_rest_api" "negative1" {
  name = "regional-example"

  endpoint_configuration {
    types = ["REGIONAL"]
  }

  minimum_compression_size = 0
}