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# AWS DB instance does not get all minor upgrades automatically misconfiguration detected in code

## Rule Details

|                        |                                         |
| ---------------------- | --------------------------------------- |
| Cortex AppSec Rule ID  | APPSEC\_AWS\_226                        |
| Category - Subcategory | Compute - Unsanctioned Resource Or Type |
| Provider               | AWS                                     |
| Severity               | LOW                                     |
| Framework              | Terraform                               |

## Impact

When Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) supports a new version of a database engine, you can upgrade your DB instances to the new version. There are two kinds of upgrades: major version upgrades and minor version upgrades. Minor upgrades helps maintain a secure and stable RDS with minimal impact on the application. For this reason, we recommend that your automatic minor upgrade is enabled. Minor version upgrades only occur automatically if a minor upgrade replaces an unsafe version, such as a minor upgrade that contains bug fixes for a previous version.

## How to Fix

## \[source,go]

resource "aws\_db\_instance" "example" { allocated\_storage = 20 engine = "mysql" engine\_version = "5.7" instance\_class = "db.t3.micro" name = "mydb" username = "foo" password = "foobarbaz" parameter\_group\_name = "default.mysql5.7"

* auto\_minor\_version\_upgrade = true }

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