sqs-deadletter-disabled: SQS Dead Letter Queue - Disabled

id: sqs-deadletter-disabled

info:
  name: SQS Dead Letter Queue - Disabled
  author: DhiyaneshDK
  severity: medium
  description: |
    Identify any publicly accessible Amazon SQS queues and update their permissions in order to protect against unauthorized users.
  impact: |
    Disabling SQS Dead Letter Queue can lead to message loss or processing failures going unnoticed, impacting application reliability and error handling.
  remediation: |
    Enable and configure a Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) to capture and isolate undelivered messages for troubleshooting and retries.
  reference:
    - https://www.trendmicro.com/cloudoneconformity-staging/knowledge-base/aws/SQS/dead-letter-queue.html
    - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-dead-letter-queues.html
  tags: cloud,devops,aws,amazon,sqs,aws-cloud-config

variables:
  region: "us-west-2"

flow: |
  code(1)
  for(let QueueUrls of iterate(template.queueurls)){
    set("queueurl", QueueUrls)
    code(2)
  }

self-contained: true

code:
  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
      aws sqs list-queues --region $region --query 'QueueUrls[*]' --output json

    extractors:
      - type: json
        name: queueurls
        internal: true
        json:
          - '.[]'

  - engine:
      - sh
      - bash
    source: |
        aws sqs get-queue-attributes --region $region --queue-url $queueurl --attribute-names RedrivePolicy --query 'Attributes.RedrivePolicy' --output json

    matchers:
      - type: word
        words:
          - 'null'

    extractors:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - '"SQS Dead Letter Queue " + queueurl + " is Disabled"'
# digest: 490a0046304402207e07ef8457577d7d2b255b53699794d8c141cebf5eac23f99bb82c02ad3b6f7202201f457f4174ef3e3fb16a99ba6046aaceca0c2cfd648e64e6e952238f4453fbd6:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

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