EFS With Vulnerable Policy

• Query id: fae52418-bb8b-4ac2-b287-0b9082d6a3fd
• Query name: EFS With Vulnerable Policy
• Platform: Terraform
• Severity: Medium
• Category: Access Control
• URL: Github

Description

EFS (Elastic File System) policy should avoid wildcard in 'Action' and 'Principal'.
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Positive test num. 1 - tf file

provider "aws" {
  region = "us-east-1"
}

resource "aws_efs_file_system" "not_secure" {
  creation_token = "efs-not-secure"

  tags = {
    Name = "NotSecure"
  }
}

resource "aws_efs_file_system_policy" "not_secure_policy" {
  file_system_id = aws_efs_file_system.not_secure.id

  policy = <<POLICY
{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Id": "ExamplePolicy01",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "ExampleStatement01",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Principal": {
                "AWS": "*"
            },
            "Action": [
                "elasticfilesystem:*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
POLICY
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_efs_file_system" "fs" {
  creation_token = "my-product"
}

resource "aws_efs_file_system_policy" "policy" {
  file_system_id = aws_efs_file_system.fs.id

  policy = <<POLICY
{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Id": "ExamplePolicy01",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Sid": "ExampleStatement01",
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Principal": {
                "AWS": "arn:aws:iam::111122223333:user/Carlos"
            }
            "Resource": "aws_efs_file_system.test.arn",
            "Action": [
                "elasticfilesystem:ClientMount",
                "elasticfilesystem:ClientWrite"
            ],
            "Condition": {
                "Bool": {
                    "aws:SecureTransport": "true"
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}
POLICY
}