LOW
Source
Trivy
ID
AVD-AWS-0049

Missing description for security group/security group rule.

Security groups and security group rules should include a description for auditing purposes.

Simplifies auditing, debugging, and managing security groups.

Impact

Descriptions provide context for the firewall rule reasons

Follow the appropriate remediation steps below to resolve the issue.

Add descriptions for all security groups and rules

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Resources:
  GoodExampleCacheGroup:
    Type: AWS::ElastiCache::SecurityGroup
    Properties:
      Description: Some description
  GoodExampleEc2SecurityGroup:
    Type: AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup
    Properties:
      GroupName: GoodExample
      GroupDescription: Good Elasticache Security Group
  GoodSecurityGroupIngress:
    Type: AWS::ElastiCache::SecurityGroupIngress
    Properties: 
      CacheSecurityGroupName: GoodExampleCacheGroup
      EC2SecurityGroupName: GoodExampleEc2SecurityGroup

Add descriptions for all security groups and rules

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resource "aws_security_group" "bar" {
	name = "security-group"
}

resource "aws_elasticache_security_group" "good_example" {
	name = "elasticache-security-group"
	security_group_names = [aws_security_group.bar.name]
	description = "something"
}