Encryption Customer Key | Vulnerability Database

DocumentDB encryption should use Customer Managed Keys

Encryption using AWS keys provides protection for your DocumentDB underlying storage. To increase control of the encryption and manage factors like rotation use customer managed keys.

Impact

Using AWS managed keys does not allow for fine grained control

Recommended Actions

Follow the appropriate remediation steps below to resolve the issue.

Enable encryption using customer managed keys

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Resources:
  GoodExample:
    Type: "AWS::DocDB::DBCluster"
    Properties:
      BackupRetentionPeriod : 8
      DBClusterIdentifier : "sample-cluster"
      DBClusterParameterGroupName : "default.docdb3.6"
      KmsKeyId : "your-kms-key-id"
      EnableCloudwatchLogsExports:
      - audit
      - profiler
  InstanceInstanceExample:
    Type: "AWS::DocDB::DBInstance"
    Properties:
      AutoMinorVersionUpgrade: true
      AvailabilityZone: "us-east-1c"
      DBClusterIdentifier: "sample-cluster"
      DBInstanceClass: "db.r5.large"
      DBInstanceIdentifier: "sample-cluster-instance-0"
      PreferredMaintenanceWindow: "sat:06:54-sat:07:24"

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 resource "aws_kms_key" "docdb_encryption" {
 	enable_key_rotation = true
 }
 			
 resource "aws_docdb_cluster" "docdb" {
   cluster_identifier      = "my-docdb-cluster"
   engine                  = "docdb"
   master_username         = "foo"
   master_password         = "mustbeeightchars"
   backup_retention_period = 5
   preferred_backup_window = "07:00-09:00"
   skip_final_snapshot     = true
   kms_key_id 			  = aws_kms_key.docdb_encryption.arn
 }
 

Remediation Links

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/resources/docdb_cluster#kms_key_id