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Amazon_RDS_8

Ensure RDS should not be open to a large scope

Description

When the VPC security group associated with an RDS instance allows unrestricted access (0.0.0.0/0), everyone and everything on the Internet can establish a connection to your database and this can increase the opportunity for malicious activities such as brute force attacks, SQL injections or DoS/DDoS attacks.

Remediation

Perform the following steps :

  1. Login to the AWS Management Console.
  2. Navigate to RDS dashboard at https://console.aws.amazon.com/rds/.
  3. In the navigation panel, under RDS Dashboard, click Instances.
  4. Select the RDS instance that you want to update.
  5. Click Instance Actions button from the dashboard top menu and select Modify.
  6. On the Modify DB Instance: &lt

Service

RDS

Severity

Medium

Compliance

Mapping

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