Public API gateway not configured with AWS Web Application Firewall v2 (AWS WAFv2)

Description

AWS WAF is a web application firewall service that helps protect your web applications and APIs from common web exploits that could affect your application's availability, integrity, or confidentiality. By attaching AWS WAF to your public API gateway, you can create rules that block or allow traffic based on the characteristics of the traffic, such as the IP address, the HTTP method, or the values of specific headers. This can help to protect your API from common web exploits such as SQL injection attacks, cross-site scripting attacks, and other types of malicious traffic.

Code Example

resource "aws_api_gateway_rest_api" "edge" {
  name = var.name

  policy = ""

  endpoint_configuration {
    types = ["EDGE"]
  }
}

resource "aws_api_gateway_stage" "wafv2_edge" {
  deployment_id = aws_api_gateway_deployment.example.id
  rest_api_id   = aws_api_gateway_rest_api.edge.id
  stage_name    = "example"
}

resource "aws_wafv2_web_acl_association" "edge" {
  resource_arn = aws_api_gateway_stage.wafv2_edge.arn
  web_acl_id   = aws_wafv2_web_acl.foo.id
}

Remediation

Terraform

Rule Details

Field	Value
ID	IAC-0463
Severity	MEDIUM
IaC Type	Terraform
Frameworks	Terraform, TerraformPlan
Checkov ID	CKV2_AWS_29

References

• Checkov Rule

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