Alibaba Cloud RAM password policy does not have an uppercase character misconfiguration detected in

Rule Details

Cortex AppSec Rule ID	APPSEC_ALI_19
Category - Subcategory	IAM - Authentication Policies
Provider	ALIBABA_CLOUD
Severity	MEDIUM
Framework	Terraform

Impact

This rule identifies Alibaba Cloud accounts that do not have an uppercase character in the password policy. As a security best practice, configure a strong password policy for secure access to the Alibaba Cloud console.

How to Fix

Resource: alicloud_ram_account_password_policy

• Arguments: require_uppercase_characters

To mitigate this issue, ensure the require_uppercase_characters attribute in the alicloud_ram_account_password_policy resource is set to true.

Example: [source,go]

resource "alicloud_ram_account_password_policy" "example" { ...

• require_uppercase_characters = true }

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