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No Secrets In Custom Data

MEDIUM
Source
Trivy
ID
AVD-AZU-0037
terraform

Ensure that no sensitive credentials are exposed in VM custom_data

When creating Azure Virtual Machines, custom_data is used to pass start up information into the EC2 instance. This custom_dat must not contain access key credentials.

Impact

Follow the appropriate remediation steps below to resolve the issue.

Don’t use sensitive credentials in the VM custom_data

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 resource "azurerm_virtual_machine" "good_example" {
 	name = "good_example"
	os_profile_linux_config {
		disable_password_authentication = false
	}
	os_profile {
		custom_data =<<EOF
			export GREETING="Hello there"
			EOF
	}
 }
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