HIGH
Source
Trivy/CSPM
CSPM ID
insecure-ec2-metadata-options
ID
AVD-AWS-0028

aws_instance should activate session tokens for Instance Metadata Service.

IMDS v2 (Instance Metadata Service) introduced session authentication tokens which improve security when talking to IMDS. By default aws_instance resource sets IMDS session auth tokens to be optional. To fully protect IMDS you need to enable session tokens by using metadata_options block and its http_tokens variable set to required.

Impact

Instance metadata service can be interacted with freely

Follow the appropriate remediation steps below to resolve the issue.

Enable HTTP token requirement for IMDS

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 resource "aws_instance" "good_example" {
	 ami           = "ami-005e54dee72cc1d00"
	 instance_type = "t2.micro"
	 metadata_options {
	 http_tokens = "required"
	 }	
 }