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Elastic Load Balancer Has Insecure SSL Protocols

Overview​

Check whether Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs) are configured with weak SSL ciphers. This check specfically looks at whether if the ssl policy is the secure policy 'ELBSecurityPolicy-TLS-1-2-2017-01'. Employing insecure ciphers can compromise the security of data during transmission. It is advisable to utilize a Security policy that employs the strongest possible ciphers while eliminating outdated and insecure ones.

Vendor​

AWS

Cloud Service​

ELB

References​

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/APIReference/API_DescribeLoadBalancers.html, https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/application/create-https-listener.html#describe-ssl-policies

Severity​

3

Item Types​

AWS::ElasticLoadBalancing::LoadBalancer